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Religious healing and mental health [PDF]

Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 2020
The extant and rapidly expanding literature on religion and mental health provides support for the beneficial effects of religious involvement on mental health and well-being.
Simon Dein
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Mental Illness: The Healing Power in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power [PDF]

, 2017
Bessie Head's A Question of Power is one of the great African literary pieces that deals with insanity. As a reader, I found it challenging to cope with the traumatic situations encountered by Elizabeth, the central character of this novel. She struggles
Wahab, A. (Abdul)
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Health Professionals' Attitudes Towards Traditional Healing for Mental Illness: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

Int J Ment Health Nurs
Wollie AM, Usher K, Rice K, Islam MS.
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Healing Emotions Through Philosophical Thinking [PDF]

, 2020
Manifesting in diverse forms, mental and emotional health problems within the contemporary society have proven challenging to current biomedical healing practice and thereby remain a significant threat to individuals ...
Um, Jeonghoon
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Erratum: A scoping review to evaluate the efficacy of combining traditional healing and modern psychiatry in global mental healthcare - CORRIGENDUM. [PDF]

Glob Ment Health (Camb)
Jilka S, Winsper C, Johnson SA, Ilozumba O, Wagner RG, Subhedar S, Morroni D, Lilford R, Singh SP.   +8 more
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Traditional Healers and Mental Health in Nepal: A Scoping Review. [PDF]

, 2019
Despite extensive ethnographic and qualitative research on traditional healers in Nepal, the role of traditional healers in relation to mental health has not been synthesized.
Franz, Lauren, Kaiser, Bonnie N, Kohrt, Brandon A, Koirala, Rishav, Maharjan, Sujen Man, Pham, Tony V, Upadhaya, Nawaraj   +6 more
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"Now he walks and walks, as if he didn't have a home where he could eat": food, healing, and hunger in Quechua narratives of madness [PDF]

, 2013
In the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of southern Peru, mental disorder is understood less as individualized pathology and more as a disturbance in family and social relationships. For many Andeans, food and feeding are ontologically fundamental to
A Topor, Alison Krogel, Anna Meigs, Bianca Brijnath, Carlos Larrea, Carole M Counihan, Catherine J Allen, Catherine J Allen, Christine Greenway, Constance Classen, David M. R. Orr, David MR Orr, Derek Summerfield, Derek Summerfield, Duncan Pedersen, Elizabeth Cartwright, Emily Yates-Doerr, Gaithri A Fernando, Hermilio Valdizán, Irene Silverblatt, Javier Saavedra, Judith K Bass, Katherine Sohrsdahl, Krista E Vleet van, Laurence J Kirmayer, Lesley Jo Weaver, Libbet Crandon-Malamud, Mary Weismantel, Mary Weismantel, María Tapias, Michael Goddard, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Neely Laurenzo Myers, Parin Dossa, Peter Gose, Sarah Lund Skar, Sharon Alane Abramowitz, Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, Ursula Read, WHO, Xavier Ricard Lanata   +40 more
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The Evolution of Mental Healing [PDF]

The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1913
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Anthropology, Brokerage and Collaboration in the development of a Tongan Public Psychiatry: Local Lessons for Global Mental Health [PDF]

, 2016
The Global Mental Health (GMH) movement has revitalised questions of the translatability of psychiatric concepts and the challenges of community engagement in countries where knowledge of the biomedical basis for psychiatric diagnosis is limited or ...
Campbell I. C., Churchward C. M., Cowling W. E., Desjarlais R., Fadgen T. P., Gordon T., Heaton M. M., Helu F., Janman P., Jilek W. G., Jilek W. G., Latukefu S., Leckie J., Littlewood R., Luhrmann T., Mike Poltorak, Minister of Health, Moala K., Morton H., Parsons C. D. F., Puloka M. H., Puloka M. H., Puloka M. H., Shore B., Thaman K. H., Vaiola Hospital Psychiatric Unit, Vaiola Hospital Psychiatric Unit, Vaiola Hospital Psychiatric Unit, Vaka S. L., Weiss P., Williams A. T., Williams A. T., World Health Organization (WHO), ‘Atenisi University   +33 more
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Microbial lysate upregulates host oxytocin [PDF]

, 2017
Neuropeptide hormone oxytocin has roles in social bonding, energy metabolism, and wound healing contributing to good physical, mental and social health. It was previously shown that feeding of a human commensal microbe Lactobacillus reuteri (L.
Alm, Eric J., Cheung, Harry K., DiBenedictis, Brett T., Didyk, Eliska, Erdman, Susan E., Hardas, Alexandros, Ibrahim, Yassin, Kolandaivelu, Kumaran, Levkovich, Tatiana, Poutahidis, Theofilos, Ricciardi, Catherine E., Shikhman, Lana, Varian, Bernard J., Veenema, Alexa H.   +13 more
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