“…Scholars have kept largely silent on the management of witchcraft, yet it is the very same therapists governing social evictions who manage supposedly restorative spiritual cleansing. Critically, as others have argued (Allen, 1991;O'Byrne, 2017), these processes represent another face of reconstruction. Our evidence, in conversation with the rich anthropological literature that has emphasised the frictions between different actors with competing visions of social repair (Macdonald, 2017;Storer et al, 2017;Victor & Porter, 2017), suggests that these collective social processes equally link to mental health agendas in surprising ways.…”