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Illnesses of the Spirit Among the Serer of Senegal

MORTON BEISER, WINTHROP A. BURR, JEAN-LOUIS RAVEL, and HENRI COLLOMBAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 130, Number 8

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.8.881

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This report is part of an extensive survey of the Serer tribe in West Africa; the purpose is to assess clinical characteristics and prevalence of psychiatric disorder. Using key-informant interviewing, the authors identified three "illnesses of the spirit" as corresponding in many ways to Western notions of mental illness. Case material is presented that provides impressionistic evidence of the universality of some mental disorders.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 130 • Number 8 • August 1973

Pages: 881 - 886

PubMed: 4716688

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Published in print: August 1973

Published online: 1 April 2006

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MORTON BEISER

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WINTHROP A. BURR

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JEAN-LOUIS RAVEL

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HENRI COLLOMB

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Associate Professor of Social Psychiatry, Harvard School of Public Health, 55 Shattuck St., Boston, Mass. 02115

Resident in psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Brookline, Mass.

Research Psychologist, University of Dakar, Senegal

Professor of Psychiatry, University of Dakar, Senegal

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Illnesses of the Spirit Among the Serer of Senegal

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