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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 129, No. 1

Articles | July 01, 1972

Shamanism Versus Psychiatry in Bali, "Isle of the Gods": Some Modern Implications

STANLEY R. DEAN; DENNY THONG

Am J Psychiatry 1972;129:59-62.

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Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Florida, Gainesville

1972, American Psychiatric Association

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The authors compare the bases of the treatment of mental illness by native healers and by psychiatrists. They describe the types of mental illness treated by the native healers of Bali and their methods of treatment. The authors also point out some of the lessons psychiatry can learn from shamanism.

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