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The Distress of Makutu: Some Cultural–Clinical Considerations of Māori Witchcraft

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In this chapter, the complex cultural–clinical interface in Global Mental Health will be investigated in reference to a person identifying Māori in a New Zealand Māori mental health service. In New Zealand, there is generally a sensitivity towards the cultural mental health discourse, and thus the integrative psychotherapeutic work with a person in r to makutu (witchcraft) and paranoia is explored within the Māori mental health model of te whare tapa wha (the house of wellbeing).

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    It is beyond the scope of this chapter to provide a full account of research carried out into psychotherapy specifically with Māori clients. Suffice to say that currently there is a paucity of RCTs and outcomes research on the effectiveness of talking therapies for Māori (Te Pou o Te Whakaaro Nui 2010).

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Lambrecht, I. (2017). The Distress of Makutu: Some Cultural–Clinical Considerations of Māori Witchcraft. In: White, R., Jain, S., Orr, D., Read, U. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39510-8_26

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