La pratica terapeutica all'interno di un modello integrato di salute mentale: una esperienza nel territorio cubano.

In this work, Authors present the results of a ethnographic and anthropologic research evaluating the traditional medicines existing in Cuban specific field of the Havana. This research was carried out following theoretic topical suggestions from medical anthropology and ethnopsychiatry. These theories declare that each culture develops specific health and well-being standards, according to the belonging cosmovision, and that creates some methods and treatment arrangements in order to keep the psychophisical balance. These theories gave the same status to these different methods of cure, when these methods have any effectiveness and are able to make cultural identity stronger. This research carried out the traditional medicines census and cataloguing appearing in the Cuban field, monitoring if and how the application of traditional medicines could join the application of occidental medicine. The census provided the traditional medical practitioners cataloguing, their modus operandi, which diseases they treat, how much these methods are successful, and the therapeutic routes used by patients. This research was based on the tools of the ethnographic qualitative research: participant observation, open interview, half-arranged interview, the life histories compilation, videotapes.