Non-affective psychosis in traditional Andean culture.
Transcultural psychiatry February 1, 2025 Marucela Uscamayta Ayvar, Rodolfo Sanchez Garrafa, Javier I Escobar et al. 3 citations
A case of non-affective psychosis was treated first by traditional Inka healers and later by Western-trained psychiatrists. The traditional Inka psychopathological framework offered empirical support for the cross-cultural stability of the Kraepelinian dichotomy, suggesting that the distinction between affective and non-affective psychoses holds across different cultural contexts.