Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery in Relation to Mental Health and Mental Disorder1

Wittkower, E. D.; Weidman, Hazel H.

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“…The psychopathological implications are beyond the scope of this paper, but they have been extensively reported by Yap (5), Kiev (6), Weidman and Sussex (7), Wittkower and Weidman (8), and others.…”

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confidence: 80%

Shamanism Versus Psychiatry in Bali, "Isle of the Gods": Some Modern Implications

Dean¹,

Thong²

1972

AJP

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 80%

Shamanism Versus Psychiatry in Bali, "Isle of the Gods": Some Modern Implications

Dean¹,

Thong²

1972

AJP

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“…Only a handful of articles allow us to understand his interest in specific themes, such as states of possession and Voodoo, which ensued following a research trip to Haiti in 1962, or even magic. On this topic he collaborated with the American anthropologist Hazel H. Weidman (Wittkower & Weidman, 1969), who was one of the founders of medical anthropology in the 1960s and 70s alongside Dorothea Leighton, Alexander Leighton's first wife. As a didactic psychoanalyst and professor in the McGill Department of Psychiatry, Wittkower never became a "medical anthropologist"; his work has always been interdisciplinary in a broader sense.…”

Section: Culture-bound Syndromes Psychiatric Epidemiology and The Stu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cross-cultural, transnational or interdisciplinary? Eric Wittkower’s psychosomatic medicine and transcultural psychiatry in historical context

Hennig

Delille

Müller

2023

Transcult Psychiatry

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This article traces the career, scientific achievements, and emigration of the Berlin-born physician, psychoanalyst, and psychosomatic researcher Eric Wittkower. Trained in Berlin and practicing internal medicine, he became persecuted by the Nazi regime and, after fleeing Germany via Switzerland, continued his professional career in the United Kingdom, where he turned to psychosomatic medicine and worked in the service of the British Army during World War II. After two decades of service in the UK, Wittkower joined McGill University in Canada. His increasingly interdisciplinary work contributed to the establishment of the new research field of transcultural psychiatry. Finally the paper provides a detailed history of the beginning of the section of transcultural psychiatry at the Allan Memorial Institute.

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“…Conversely, many articles in the newsletter were later reproduced in French in Psychopathologie africaine, by common consent of the two editorial boards. This journal also published some of Wittkower's research findings in French (Wittkower and Weidmann, 1968). But Wittkower's network spread even farther, and some Asian countries, such as Japan, are overrepresented within the newsletter.…”

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Eric Wittkower and the foundation of Montréal’s Transcultural Psychiatry Research Unit after World War II

Delille

2018

Hist Psychiatry

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Eric Wittkower founded McGill University's Transcultural Psychiatry Unit in 1955. One year later, he started the first international newsletter in this academic field: Transcultural Psychiatry. However, at the beginning of his career Wittkower gave no signs that he would be interested in social sciences and psychiatry. This paper describes the historical context of the post-war period, when Wittkower founded the research unit in Montréal. I focus on the history of scientific networks and the circulation of knowledge, and particularly on the exchanges between the French- and English-speaking academic cultures in North America and Europe. Because the history of transcultural psychiatry is a transnational history par excellence, this leads necessarily to the question of the reception of this academic field abroad.

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Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery in Relation to Mental Health and Mental Disorder1

Cited by 5 publications

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Shamanism Versus Psychiatry in Bali, "Isle of the Gods": Some Modern Implications

Shamanism Versus Psychiatry in Bali, "Isle of the Gods": Some Modern Implications

Cross-cultural, transnational or interdisciplinary? Eric Wittkower’s psychosomatic medicine and transcultural psychiatry in historical context

Eric Wittkower and the foundation of Montréal’s Transcultural Psychiatry Research Unit after World War II

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