Abstract
Folk illnesses in Peru are described by VALDIVIA PONCE. RUBEL surveys the literature on one of the most common folk illnesses in Latin America, Susto, and offers an epidemiological model and certain hypotheses regarding its causation. LEON, dealing with Espanto, a form of Susto in Colombia, describes the symptomatology of this illness, presents etiological concepts held by the local Andean population and provides interpretations of this phenomenon along psychoanalytic lines. ROTHENBERG attributes certain clinical manifesta tions in Puerto Ricans to culturally fostered repression of aggressiveness.
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