Traditional healing practices originating in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao:A review of the literature on psychiatry and Brua
Brua is an Afro-Caribbean religion and healing tradition from the southern part of the former Netherlands Antilles. Like other Caribbean healing traditions, it plays a significant role in shaping how individuals experience and express disorders which Western health professionals consider to require psychiatric care. Because little has been published on Brua, and because patients from Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao are often reluctant to discuss their commitment to this tradition, they are often misdiagnosed and either over- or undertreated by biomedically trained health professionals. The present... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Blom , J D , Poulina , I T , van Gellecum , T L & Hoek , H W 2015 , ' Traditional healing practices originating in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao : A review of the literature on psychiatry and Brua ' , Transcultural psychiatry , vol. 52 , no. 6 , pp. 840-860 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461515589709 |
Schlagwörter: | Afro-Caribbean religion / Dutch-Antillean folk religion / magic / sorcery / transcultural psychiatry / ANTILLES |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26486083 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/f32d1bf6-8b1e-4b0b-ab2b-467700fe5ca6 |