Med Trop (Mars). 1981 May-Jun; 41(3): 297-306.

[Cultural aspects of mental disorders in Ivory Coast (an ethnopsychiatric approach) (author's transl)]

Hazera M, Esvan J.

The authors recall first the presence social conditions in Ivory Coast. Then, they describe the main mental disorders they have observed and they compare and analyse their own diagnosis with reference to european and american patterns and to those given in Dakar by Collomb. Studying the etiologic problems, they consider the question of the ethnic originality of mental diseases, and, as a consequence of it, the value of african indigenous treatments.