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Integrating African and Western Healing Practices in South Africa

Only very recently in South Africa has psychotherapy been practiced across the apartheid divide. There has therefore been relatively little dialogue between African healing practices and Western ones. The present paper, which outlines a therapeutic encounter with three adolescent girls suffering from symptoms characteristic ofPTSD, attempts such a dialogue.

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