TY - JOUR
T1 - Dysesthesia, Witchcraft, and Conversion Reaction
T2 - A Case Successfully Treated With Psychotherapy
AU - Hillard, James R.
AU - Rockwell, W. J.Kenneth
PY - 1978/10/13
Y1 - 1978/10/13
N2 - An intelligent, well-educated black woman from the rural South, through an interaction of psychopathology and cultural background, experienced dysesthesia as a conversion reaction and came to believe that she was the victim of witchcraft. After neurological evaluation showed no abnormalities, she was successfully treated with conventional psychotherapy. Belief in hexing or root work is still alive today and should be inquired about in patients with unusual symptoms and an appropriate cultural background.
AB - An intelligent, well-educated black woman from the rural South, through an interaction of psychopathology and cultural background, experienced dysesthesia as a conversion reaction and came to believe that she was the victim of witchcraft. After neurological evaluation showed no abnormalities, she was successfully treated with conventional psychotherapy. Belief in hexing or root work is still alive today and should be inquired about in patients with unusual symptoms and an appropriate cultural background.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0018161204&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1001/jama.1978.03290160060024
DO - 10.1001/jama.1978.03290160060024
M3 - Article
C2 - 691173
AN - SCOPUS:0018161204
SN - 0098-7484
VL - 240
SP - 1742
EP - 1744
JO - JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
JF - JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
IS - 16
ER -