O O Famuyiwa
Biographic Data
| ID | 221731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | O O Famuyiwa |
| FAMILY NAME | O O Famuyiwa |
| SIGNATURE | FAMUYIWA O O |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Medicine of the University of Lagos |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ogun Oru
This article describes three cases of ` ogun oru' (nocturnal warefare), a condition reported in southwest Nigeria involving an acute night-time disturbance that is culturally attributed to demonic infiltration of the body and psyche during dreaming. Ogun oru is characterized by its occurrence, a female preponderance, the perception of an underlying feud between the sufferer's earthly spouse and a `spiritual' spouse, and the event of bewitchment t…
Social Networks of Nigerian Psychiatric Patients
Despite the indubitable cohesiveness of their community life, Nigerian psychiatric patients had social networks with deficiencies not dissimilar to those reported for patients in the industrialised societies. Interactions between these Nigerian patients as focal persons and other members of their network, were found to be intense, but seemed to lack a strong affectional core. As expected, the separated, and the divorced patients scored less than …
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Social Networks of Nigerian Psychiatric Patients
Despite the indubitable cohesiveness of their community life, Nigerian psychiatric patients had social networks with deficiencies not dissimilar to those reported for patients in the industrialised societies. Interactions between these Nigerian patients as focal persons and other members of their network, were found to be intense, but seemed to lack a strong affectional core. As expected, the separated, and the divorced patients scored less than …
Ogun Oru
This article describes three cases of ` ogun oru' (nocturnal warefare), a condition reported in southwest Nigeria involving an acute night-time disturbance that is culturally attributed to demonic infiltration of the body and psyche during dreaming. Ogun oru is characterized by its occurrence, a female preponderance, the perception of an underlying feud between the sufferer's earthly spouse and a `spiritual' spouse, and the event of bewitchment t…
Psychiatry (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Cataplexy (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Family Caregiving in Mental Illness (1 work) · Feud (1 work) · Group cohesiveness (1 work)