%0 Journal Article
%T Alternative medicine: Soul healers
%A Stojanovi£¿ Marko
%J Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
%D 2005
%I Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
%R 10.2298/gei0553387s
%X The wars and subsequent crisis in the former Yugoslavia have brought about a different, distressed value system to the populations in Serbia. One of its reflections is seen in an establishment of the so-called alternative healing systems. The contemporary, modern medicine holds that illnesses are caused by various psycho-somatic agents, therefore, I take contemporary healers to be alternative psychiatrists and therapists which balance and cure individual distresses. Crisis in societies are psycho-physical triggers that initiate structural disturbances in personalities of active and passive participants, and initiate a search for psycho-therapeutic methods which include transcendental. The processes of globalization and urbanization have helped clear up the fact that the official/established and alternative/traditional medicines have structural determination and corresponding status with the prevailing value system and religious affiliation of the population. Cultural-historic processes are often established in the alternative, and the opposite.
%K traditional culture
%K globalization
%K social crisis
%K magical practice
%K healers
%K alternative psychiatry
%U http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2005/0350-08610553387S.pdf