Kiyang-yang, a West-African Postwar Idiom of Distress

Jong, J.T. de; Reis, R. (2010)

Article / Letter to editor

• Idiom of distress
• Healing cult
• Dissociation
• Traumatic stress
• Social suffering
• Central possession religion
• Clairvoyance
• Guinea Bissau
• Kiyang-yang
• Barrenness
• Witchcraft
• Political violence
• Armed conflict

• All authors: Jong, J.T. de; Reis, R.
• Date: 2010-06-30
• Journal: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 301 - 321
• DOI: doi:10.1007/s11013-010-9178-7