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Shortly before and after the political independence of Suriname in 1975, migration to the Netherlands increased significantly and the practitioners of orthodox medicine were confronted, more than in the past, with individuals who attributed their problems to supernatural causes. These people complained that their disorders were diagnosed from a biomedical viewpoint and treated with biomedicine while this kind of therapy was not always necessary and effective.
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Wooding, C.J. (1995). Afro-Surinamese Ethnopsychiatry. In: Price, R.K., Shea, B.M., Mookherjee, H.N. (eds) Social Psychiatry across Cultures. Topics in Social Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0632-8_10
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