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When sickness or ill-being strikes the African man, he finds himself in a way confronted with a dilemma. Overall, two or more medicines, coexisting more or less peacefully, but whose approaches (modern, traditional, spiritual, psychological, etc.) are fundamentally different. While it is certain that modern medical treatment is effective, it is not certain that this kind of medicine is capable of treating and curing certain forms of unnatural or spiritual diseases. From then on, the ancestral traditional therapeutic contribution in the face of mental pathologies with its endogenous medication is presented as a kind of complementary life insurance for this people. Because the latter is made with strong and powerful words (Só, Gbé, Sù, Bò) likely to provoke or block the way to all the obscure harmful health tendencies to which modern Western medicine could not access despite all its very biotechnological verve. evolved. But does this endogenous practice in the Wem country in Benin (Lower Valley of Ouémé) heal or does it simply treat?
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AVOCÈ Codjo Jaurès, nascido a 4 de Agosto de 1986, Doutor em Psicopatologia e Psicologia Clínica, Laboratório de Psicologia Aplicada (LPA), Escola Doutoral Multidisciplinar ¿EDP/ECD¿, Univ. de Abomey-Calavi (UAC).de CHACUS Vitondin Sylvie, nascido a 31 de Dezembro de 1976, Professor-Investigador, Docente em Psicologia (CAMES), FASHS, UAC.
