Open AccessAlternative medicine: Soul healers
Author(s) -
Marko Stojanović
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
glasnik etnografskog instituta/glasnik etnografskog instituta sanu
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2334-8259
pISSN - 0350-0861
DOI - 10.2298/gei0553387s
Subject(s) - soul , value (mathematics) , population , modern medicine , alternative medicine , transcendental number , globalization , personality psychology , urbanization , medicine , traditional medicine , sociology , psychotherapist , political science , environmental ethics , psychology , personality , economic growth , law , social psychology , epistemology , economics , philosophy , environmental health , pathology , machine learning , computer science
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