Explanatory models of psychotic-like experiences in rural Burkina Faso: A qualitative study among indigents and their community

Pigeon-Gagné, Émilie; Vigu, Teodora; Kadio, Kadidiatou; Bonnet, Emmanuel; Ridde, Valéry

doi:10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100166

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“…Two studies among TFH in South Africa [ 34 ▪ , 35 ] and one study among people from Burkina Faso who were identified as indigents with psychotic-like experiences [ 36 ], reported that, within the supernatural causal model, psychotic disturbances may be positively valuated as a supernatural gift of healing in some cases. For example, in a rural Zulu community, ‘the calling of the ancestors to become a traditional healer’, a cultural construct for psychotic disturbances, is regarded as a gift rather than an illness, despite the severe agony that individuals might experience at the onset of this ancestral calling.…”

Section: Recent African Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traditional and faith-based healthcare in the management of psychotic disorders in Africa: in search for synergy

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Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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Purpose of reviewThis review summarizes the current literature on the role of traditional and faith-based healthcare in the management of psychotic disorders in Africa. Recent findingsIn contemporary Africa, individuals with psychosis and traditional and faith healers (TFH) are pluralistic towards their understanding of psychosis and their help-seeking behaviour. Traditional healing is perceived to be helpful to patients with psychotic disorders and their family members and may have a positive influence on the course of psychosis in some selected individuals. Studies show that potentially harmful practices are commonly used by African TFH, but that these are associated with a lack of resources and are susceptible to training. Although various TFH and biomedical practitioners are open to collaboration, the many identified obstacles hinder actual partnerships. However, the few studies that have been conducted on collaborative care for patients with psychotic disorders on the continent, show positive outcomes. SummaryRather than harmonizing the two healing paradigms, synergistic collaboration between traditional/faithbased and biomedical mental healthcare in the management of individuals with psychosis seems to be possible within certain limits. Synergistic collaboration is more culturally syntonic and may actually contribute to bridging the treatment gap for mental disorders in present-day Africa.

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Section: Recent African Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%