The Huichol offering: a shamanic healing journey.
Journal of religion and health June 1, 2009 Carl Allen Hammerschlag 7 citations
A team led by an American transcultural psychiatrist and a Mexican engineer, both deeply involved with the Huichol Indians, resolved a decade-long epidemic of sorcery-induced possession among Huichol children in boarding schools. The children had become possessed by demonic witchcraft, transforming them into aggressive animals, and local shamans had been unable to treat the illness. The team integrated traditional belief and ritual with modern psychological principles to create a healing narrative, representing a cross-cultural integration of mind, body, and spirit medicine.