That is lesson 6 done.
What to look for, what to say to a doctor, and what to say to family who disagree.
Anything you wrote in this lesson is in your notebook, on this device only.
Where this lesson comes from
- Nortje G, Oladeji B, Gureje O, Seedat S (2016). Effectiveness of traditional healers in treating mental disorders: a systematic review. The Lancet Psychiatry, 3(2), 154 to 170.
- Gureje O, Appiah-Poku J, Bello T, Kola L, Araya R, Chisholm D, and others (2020). Effect of collaborative care between traditional and faith healers and primary health-care workers on psychosis outcomes in Nigeria and Ghana (COSIMPO): a cluster randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 396(10251), 612 to 622.
- Marlow M (2022). The practices of a raqi (Islamic exorcist) in Stockholm. Contemporary Islam, 16(2), 277 to 294. Background reading for lesson 6. The practitioner studied recognised that some people who report seeing jinn are unwell in a way that needs a clinician, and responded by listening rather than by performing a session.