William Sargant’s scientific contributions

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Witch doctoring, zar and voodoo: their relation to modern psychiatric treatments
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November 1967

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine

William Sargant

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... Such data and beliefs have to be moderated: the fact that "all deaths are unnatural" or at least that death and/or disease could be produced facilitated or by magical means [11][12][13] is not held in all sub-Saharan traditions, and not even in all ethnic and/or religious groups related to the "Bantu expansion" (for example in Southern and Eastern Africa). [14][15] Our study involved populations related to Voodoo beliefs (principally the Ewe, Kabye, Mina, Fon, and Yoruba communities), 16 excluding other "traditional" ones, such as Christianity from Ethiopia. ...

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Medical Students from Parakou (Benin) and West-African Traditional Beliefs on Death and Cadavers
Witch doctoring, zar and voodoo: their relation to modern psychiatric treatments
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  • November 1967

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine