Three perspectives on ukuthwasa: the view from traditional beliefs, western psychiatry and transpersonal psychology
Among the Xhosas, the healing sickness called intwaso is interptreted as a call by the ancestors to become a healer. Transpersonalists also see these initiatory illnesses as spiritual crises, while according to the widely accepted Western psychiatric view, illness is purely perceived in physical and...
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Rhodes University
2005
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002445 |