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Psychosomatic Medicine 29:483-490 (1967)
© 1967 American Psychosomatic Society

Voodoo, Root Work, and Medicine

DAVID C. TINLING M.D.1

1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N. Y.

Voodoo has evolved into a rural Southern practice in America called "root work." The migration of the Negro has brought "root work" to the industrial North. The cases of 7 patients who were seen in a Northern hospital and who shared a belief in hexing and "root work" are presented. The diagnostic and therapeutic implications of modern day voodoo in the Negro ghetto are discussed.

Submitted on July 7, 1966




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