Alternative medicine
Soul healers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14712873 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marko Stojanović (0000-0001-7933-8386), Marko D M Stojanović (0000-0002-6606-7449, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Issue | 53 |
| Pages | 387-398 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Glasnik Etnografskog instituta (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0350-0861 • E-ISSN: 2334-8259 |
| Publisher | National Library of Serbia (PUBLISHER • RS) |
| DOI | 10.2298/gei0553387s |
| OpenAlex | W2042556005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The wars and subsequent crisis in the former Yugoslavia have brought about a different, distressed value system to the populations in Serbia. One of its reflections is seen in an establishment of the so-called alternative healing systems. The contemporary, modern medicine holds that illnesses are caused by various psycho-somatic agents, therefore, I take contemporary healers to be alternative psychiatrists and therapists which balance and cure individual distresses. Crisis in societies are psycho-physical triggers that initiate structural disturbances in personalities of active and passive participants, and initiate a search for psycho-therapeutic methods which include transcendental. The processes of globalization and urbanization have helped clear up the fact that the official/established and alternative/traditional medicines have structural determination and corresponding status with the prevailing value system and religious affiliation of the population. Cultural-historic processes are often established in the alternative, and the opposite
Alternative medicine · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental health · Epistemology · Globalization · Modern medicine · Personality · Personality psychology · Political science · Population · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Soul · Traditional medicine · Transcendental number · Urbanization · Education, Law, and Society · Law · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2010 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |