Traditional African Mourning Practices are Abridged in Response to the AIDS Epidemic: Implications for Mental Health  

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Kilonzo, Gad Paul ; Hogan, Nora Margaret

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Transcultural Psychiatry vol. 36 no. 3 (Sep. 1999), page 259–283.
Topik: Africa; AIDS epidemic; traditional mourning rituals
Fulltext: 259TP363.pdf (266.71KB)

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This paper examines the psychological significance of traditional African mourning practices in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In Tanzania, untimely multiple losses through AIDS increasingly force communities to forgo traditionally prescribed mourning practices and rituals. An increase in psychiatric and psychological problems associated with incomplete mourning and unresolved grief has been observed in clinical settings. This may be due to the psychosocial inadequacy of these abridged mourning processes. It is unlikely that western forms of grief counseling can replace traditional mourning rituals, at least in terms of psychological efficacy. An approach is suggested that permits a wider elaboration of cultural psychic processes through the creation of new rituals.

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