Indigenous mental healthcare and human rights abuses in Nigeria: The role of cultural syntonicity and stigmatization
Abstract
Indigenous mental healthcare using traditional non-western methods termed “unorthodox approaches” has been observed in Nigeria historically. This has been largely due to a cultural preference for spiritual or mystical rather than biomedical formulations of mental disorder. Yet, there have been recent concerns about human rights abuses within such treatment settings as well as their tendency to perpetuate stigmatization.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jun 23, 2023
- Source ID
- 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1122396
Entities
People
- Adegboyega Ogunwale
- Babatunde Fadipe
- Oladayo Bifarin