Zār Spirit Possession in Iran and African Countries: Group Distress, Culture-Bound Syndrome or Cultural Concept of Distress?

Iran J Psychiatry. 2015 Sep;10(4):225-32.

Authors

Fahimeh Mianji¹, Yousef Semnani²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
² Department of Psychiatry, ImamHossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 27006667
PMCID: PMC4801492

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Keywords: African Countries; Cultural Concepts of Distress; Culture-Bound Syndrome; Globalization; Iran; Mental Illness; Spirit Possession; Zār.