Prácticas en búsqueda de legitimidad: el uso contemporáneo de la ayahuasca, entre reivindicaciones terapéuticas y religiosas
Salud Colectiva July 24, 2018 David Dupuis 17 citations
The growing Western interest in the psychoactive brew ayahuasca and participation in exotic rituals has led to a proliferation of 'shamanic centers' in the Peruvian Amazon over recent decades. Among these, the Takiwasi center is a therapeutic community that annually hosts hundreds of domestic and foreign clients. Founded by a French physician in 1992, it originally offered an alternative treatment for addiction, blending tools from Peruvian mestizo shamanism with biomedicine and clinical psychology. The institution's diachronic evolution, however, is marked by an increasing incorporation of elements from the Catholic tradition.