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Witchcraft As a Primitive Interpretation of Mental Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

M. J. Field
M. J. Field*
Affiliation:
Sometime Anthropologist to the Gold Coast Government Barrow Hospital, Barrow Gurney, near Bristol
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The following facts concerning West African witchcraft were observed and recorded by the present writer while working as an ethnologist in the Gold Coast. The writer had not, at that time, any psychiatric experience, but has since worked in British mental hospitals long enough for the facts to invest themselves with psychiatric significance.

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Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 101 , Issue 425 , October 1955 , pp. 826 - 833
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1955 

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