The Villagers’Reactions Towards Craziness: An Indonesian Example

Broch, Harald Beyer

doi:10.1177/136346150103800301

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“…In the Malay Peninsula, for example, jinn are called hantu (Broch, 2001;Chen, 1970;Razali & Yassin, 2008) whereas Moroccan Jews in Israel call them shedim (Bilu, 1980). We suspect that these regional differences are reflections of a continuum of concepts of jinn and their precursors.…”

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The attribution of psychotic symptoms to jinn in Islamic patients

Lim

Hoek

Blom

2014

Transcult Psychiatry

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Patients with an Islamic background who suffer from hallucinations or other psychotic symptoms may attribute these experiences to jinn (i.e., invisible spirits). In this paper, we review the medical literature on jinn as an explanatory model in the context of psychotic disorders. We conducted a systematic search for papers on jinn and psychosis in Pubmed, EMBASE, Ovid Medline, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar databases. Our search yielded 105 scientific texts on jinn and their relationship with mental disorders, including 47 case reports. Among the case reports a definite biomedical diagnosis was provided in 66% of the cases, of which 45.2% involved a schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Fully 10 of 16 hallucinating patients experienced multimodal hallucinations. Although infrequently documented in the biomedical literature, the attribution of psychiatric symptoms to jinn appears to be quite common among Islamic patients, and to have significant impact on the diagnosis, treatment, and course of mental disorders, particularly psychotic disorders.

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confidence: 91%

The attribution of psychotic symptoms to jinn in Islamic patients

Lim

Hoek

Blom

2014

Transcult Psychiatry

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“…The physical restraint (known as 'pasung') of people with mental health problems in health and community settings is common in Indonesia as in other developing countries [7]. This type of restraint which includes securing people to fixed objects or locking them in confined spaces can be brief and sporadic or last for a number of years [7][8][9]. Low awareness of mental health problems, patients' aggressive or violent behaviour, unemployment in the family, inaccessible or unaffordable care and stigma contribute to the use of pasung [10,11].…”

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Civic engagement and mental health system strengthening in Indonesia: a qualitative examination of the views of health professionals and national key stakeholders

Susanti

James²,

Lovell

et al. 2020

BMC Psychiatry

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Background: Mental health services in Indonesia are developing rapidly in response to national and global health policy to support people living with psychosis. This presents a unique opportunity for civic engagement, the active involvement of patients, carers and communities in mental health care, to shape emergent services. In-depth explorations of the views of professionals and other key stakeholders in mental health care on the use of civic engagement in Indonesia are lacking which contributes to a limited understanding of its potential in this regard. The study aimed to explore contemporary professionals' and other key stakeholders' perspectives on the current use of and potential for civic engagement to strengthen mental health systems in Indonesia. Methods: Qualitative interviews were undertaken and analysed using thematic analysis underpinned by a critical realist approach. Eighteen multidisciplinary professionals and lay health workers involved in mental health care in Jakarta and Bogor and 10 national key stakeholders were recruited. Results: Despite high levels of awareness of and support for civic engagement amongst mental health professionals and policy makers combined with a nascent grass roots movement, analysis revealed unstructured and insufficient mechanisms for civic engagement which resulted in ad-hoc and mostly superficial levels of involvement activity. Civic engagement was thought to require a marked shift in existing practices as well as organisational and societal cultures. Challenging stigma is a key feature of civic engagement and our analysis highlights the relevance of social contact methods which are locally and culturally contextualised in this regard. Our findings point to a need to expand current definitions of civic engagement which focus on indivdiual enablement to ones that also encompass environmental and organisational enablement to optimise the future use of civic engagement in mental health settings.

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“…In Indonesia the term pasung refers to the physical restraint or confinement of "criminals, crazy and dangerously aggressive people." [ 2 ]…”

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Pasung: Physical restraint and confinement of the mentally ill in the community

Minas

Diatri

2008

Int J Ment Health Syst

112

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BackgroundPhysical restraint and confinement (pasung) by families of people with mental illness is known to occur in many parts of the world but has attracted limited investigation. This preliminary observational study was carried out on Samosir Island in Sumatra, Indonesia, to investigate the nature of such restraint and confinement, the clinical characteristics of people restrained, and the reasons given by families and communities for applying such restraint.MethodsThe research method was cross-sectional observational research in a natural setting, carried out during a six-month period of working as the only psychiatrist in a remote district.ResultsFifteen cases of pasung, approximately even numbers of males and females and almost all with a diagnosis of schizophrenia were identified. Duration of restraint ranged from two to 21 years.Discussion and ConclusionThe provision of basic community mental health services, where there were none before, enabled the majority of the people who had been restrained to receive psychiatric treatment and to be released from pasung.

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The Villagers’Reactions Towards Craziness: An Indonesian Example

Cited by 23 publications

References 8 publications

The attribution of psychotic symptoms to jinn in Islamic patients

The attribution of psychotic symptoms to jinn in Islamic patients

Civic engagement and mental health system strengthening in Indonesia: a qualitative examination of the views of health professionals and national key stakeholders

Pasung: Physical restraint and confinement of the mentally ill in the community

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