Sunday T C Ilechukwu
Biographic Data
| ID | 8978804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunday T C Ilechukwu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunday T C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ilechukwu |
| SIGNATURE | ILECHUKWU S T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ogbanje / abiku and cultural conceptualizations of psychopathology in Nigeria
Ogbanje/abiku refer to people who are believed to cycle rapidly and repeatedly through birth and death. A consecutive familial sequence of births and deaths of infants is construed as the same child dying and being born over and over again. The Igbos believe that ogbanje results from subversion of human destiny by willful alliance of the newborn with deities who guard the postulated interface between birth and pre-birth (spirit) existence, while …
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Ogbanje / abiku and cultural conceptualizations of psychopathology in Nigeria
Ogbanje/abiku refer to people who are believed to cycle rapidly and repeatedly through birth and death. A consecutive familial sequence of births and deaths of infants is construed as the same child dying and being born over and over again. The Igbos believe that ogbanje results from subversion of human destiny by willful alliance of the newborn with deities who guard the postulated interface between birth and pre-birth (spirit) existence, while …
Denial (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Homelessness and Social Issues (1 work) · Migration, Health and Trauma (1 work) · Psychoanalysis (1 work) · Psychology (1 work) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (1 work)