Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing

This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients’ health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry.

Helmar Kurz is Lecturer and Researcher in Medical Anthropology and Transcultural Psychiatry, currently associated with the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Münster, Germany.