Sleeping blood, tremor and paralysis: A trans-cultural approach to an unusual conversion reaction

Robert Like; James Ellison

doi:10.1007/BF00049158

Sleeping blood, tremor and paralysis: A trans-cultural approach to an unusual conversion reaction

Robert Like, James Ellison

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An unusual conversion reaction and a related folk belief system are described in a Cape Verdean-American woman. A clinical approach is presented which stresses the need to negotiate between professional and popular explanatory models of illness. It is suggested that a significant factor in the successful management of this patient's symptoms was the acceptance of a mutually-understandable idiom for communication and treatment.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	49-63
Number of pages	15
Journal	Culture, medicine and psychiatry
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00049158
State	Published - Mar 1981
Externally published	Yes

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Health(social science)
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Psychiatry and Mental health

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