Abstract
This paper gives an overview of Vodou's history in Haiti and how Vodou informs Haitian mental health interventions.
Highlights
The relationship of Vodou to the mental health and identity of Haitian people is a nuanced one
While the proportion of Haitians that practice Vodou is hard to enumerate, most adhere to some aspects of Vodou (Brodwin, 1996; WHO/PAHO, 2010), including a substantial portion of the Haitian people that identify as Catholic or Protestant (Safran et al 2011)
According to Sterlin (2006) while many western peoples have an anthropocentric understanding of self, in which people are in control of their own worlds, Haitian Vodou posits a cosmocentric worldview, in which people understand themselves as nested within and impacted by a larger spiritual and psychosocial context
Summary
Doi:10.1017/gmh.2019.23 This paper gives an overview of Vodou’s history in Haiti and how Vodou informs Haitian mental health interventions. Received 11 August 2018; Revised 10 June 2019; Accepted 19 September 2019 Key words: Haiti, intervention, mental health, Vodou
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