MAGIC, FAITH and HEALING: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today. (1969) HARDCOVER

Magic, Faith, and Healing. Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today.
Ari Kiev (editor)

NY Free Press. 1964. Third Printing. Purple cloth covered boards titled in blue and gold, No writing or ownership markings. NEAR FINE, lacking the dustjacket.

Contains 19 papers. Includes: Psychotherapeutic Aspects of Shamanism on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska; Indigenous Yoruba Psychiatry; Magic Healing Techniques Among the Balahis in Central India; Folk Psychiatry in Sarawak: A Tentative System of Psychiatry of the Iban; Psychiatric Disorders as Recognized by the Shona; Witchcraft and Clanship in Cochiti Therapy; The Social Meaning of Navaho Psychopathology and Psychotherapy; An Ndembu Doctor in Practice; The Role of Native Doctors in Aboriginal Australia; Some Aspects of Functional Disorders Among the Kenya Luo; Urbanization and Mental Health in a West African Community; Folk Treatment of Mental Illness in Turkey; The Changing Social Role of the Yemenite Mori; Folk Psychiatry of the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation; Volue Conflicts and Folk Psychotherapy in South Texas; Patterns of Psychiatric Care in Developing African Countries.