Healers and Psychiatrists

This article examines the transformation of mental health care in Tajikistan from the time of Russian colonization of Central Asia until the most recent years of post-independence. It incorporates a review of published literature into the analysis of locally available reports, focus group discussions, interviews and oral histories collected between 2005 and 2008. Traditional healers play a significant role in contemporary Tajikistan, where mental health care provision is influenced by the legacy of Soviet psychiatry. Tajik mental health care may now be in a "dormant" phase, characterized by a widespread neglect of people with mental illnesses

Health care · Mental health · Mental health care · Neglect · Political science · Psychiatry · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Cultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical Reflections · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology

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