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  • Title: [Failure of a mourning ritual and reactive depression].
    Author: Faye PL, Thiam MH.
    Journal: Soins Psychiatr; 2011; (276):39-41. PubMed ID: 21972751.
    Abstract:
    In some African societies, mourning rituals are a way of isolating death from the territory of the living and to allow the bereaved to regain, after a certain time, their place in society. However, for a young educated woman confronted with the brutal death of her sister, the traditional ritual to which her family subjected her resulted in a prolonged reactive depression combined with cognitive disorders..
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