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Yuta (Shaman) and Community Mental Health on Okinawa

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  • Koichi Naka

    (Department, of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus)

  • Seijun Toguchi

    (Okinawa Christian Junior College)

  • Toshihiro Takaishi

    (Motobu Kinen Hospital)

  • Hiroshi Ishizu

    (Department of Mental health, School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus)

  • Yuji Sasaki

    (Tokyo Metropolitan Mental Health Centre)

Abstract

This study reports on the relations between the yuta (shaman) and the community mental health activities on Okinawa, Japan. Focus is on the process of initiation of the yuta and its mean ings from the mental health viewpoints,the functions of the yuta in the particular cultural background of the island, and the importance of admitting the existence of the yuta in its relations to the psychiatric treatment in a mental hospital. The discussion is based on the authors' research findings which were obtained mostly through their therapeutic activities and their field studies. The authors' assumption is that each culture has in it a certain social background that is unique in that culture by which a stress or insanity is increased or brought about, but in the same culture there are ways to decrease the stress and to cure the insanity.

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  • Koichi Naka & Seijun Toguchi & Toshihiro Takaishi & Hiroshi Ishizu & Yuji Sasaki, 1985. "Yuta (Shaman) and Community Mental Health on Okinawa," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 31(4), pages 267-273, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:31:y:1985:i:4:p:267-273
    DOI: 10.1177/002076408503100404
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