INTEGRATING AFRICAN AND WESTERN HEALING PRACTICES IN SOUTH-AFRICA

Authors
STRAKER G
Citation
G. Straker, INTEGRATING AFRICAN AND WESTERN HEALING PRACTICES IN SOUTH-AFRICA, American journal of psychotherapy, 48(3), 1994, pp. 455-467
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Psycology, Clinical",Psychiatry,Psychology
Journal title
American journal of psychotherapy → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029564
Volume
48
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
455 - 467
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9564(1994)48:3<455:IAAWHP>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Only very recently in South Africa has psychotherapy been practiced ac ross the apartheid divide. There has therefore been relatively little dialogue between African healing practices and Western ones. The prese nt paper, which outlines a therapeutic encounter with three adolescent girls suffering from symptoms characteristic of PTSD, attempts such a dialogue.