Non-affective psychosis in traditional Andean culture

Uscamayta Ayvar M.; Garrafa R.S.; Escobar J.I.; Gallo C.; Vaisberg A.; Poletti G.; de Erausquin G.A. · Transcultural Psychiatry (2025) · DOI: 10.1177/13634615221099795

Resumen

We report a case of non-affective psychosis with a brief discussion of the phenomenology and its characterization and treatment by traditional Inka healers and eventually by Western-trained psychiatrists. Traditional Inka psychopathology provided empirical support for the transcultural stability of the Kraepelinian dichotomy. © The Author(s) 2022.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos