Satisfaction in the Soul: Common Factors Theory Applied to Traditional Healers in Rural Nepal.

ABSTRACT: To explore the relationship between traditional healers and conventional psychotherapy, we conducted a combined ethnographic study and structured observational rating of healers in the middle hill region of central Nepal. We conducted in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations of healing with 84 participants comprising 29 traditional healers and 55 other community members. Overall, our observations and participant responses yielded a range of interventions that improved health through belief, satisfaction in the soul, social support, transference, and symbolic narration. The findings from our overall ethnography suggest that healers offer a platform for their patients to accept a disease state, cope with it, and to experience palliation of distress. We additionally focused on one pa

SUBMITTER: Pham TV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7531438 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature