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Title: The psychotherapeutic basis of some arab rituals.
Author: El-Islam, Mohamed F
Abstract:
resents the sheikh-visiting and zaar rituals from a psychodynamic angle. It is suggested that the psychotherapeutic effect of these rituals results from the satisfaction of unconscious needs to submit to a parent-figure transferred to imaginary "master" f
Journal: Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics. 15(1) 1967, 18.