| Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal: A History of Transcultural Psychiatry Subjects: Area Studies; Health and Social Care; Humanities; Medicine Dentistry Nursing & Allied Health; African Studies; Health & Society; History; Public Health Policy and Practice; Religion; Medicine; African Culture and Society; African History; Health in Africa; Mental Health; African History; Contemporary History 1945-; Imperial & Colonial History; Medical History; Alternative Traditions & Esotericism; Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession, and ancestor worship. Focused on the effervescent and fruitful early post-colonial years at the Fann Hospital, situated at the famed University of Dakar, Cheikh Anta Diop, this book reveals provocative treatment innovations via case studies of individuals struggling for health and healing, and thus operates as a suspension bridge between scholarship on witchcraft and magic on the one side and the history psychiatry and psychoanalysis on the other. Through these case studies, this book creates a new route of exchange for healing knowledge for a broad array of West African spiritual troubles, mental illness, magic, soul cannibalism, witchcraft, spirit possession, and psychosis. Alice Bullard (Ph.D. & ESQ) is a lawyer specializing in human rights, trafficking, personal status, and mediation. Previously, she was a professor of history at Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A |