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Javier I Escobar

Rutgers Global Health Institute, Rutgers University School of Medicine, Piscataway, NJ, USA.

1 paper in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2025

Papers

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.