Abstract
J. H. ABRAMSON carried out a health questionnaire survey among 970 persons comprising a random sample of the adult population of a predominantly immigrant neighborhood of Jerusalem. He describes the implications of this survey for the epidemiology of emotional disorder in this neighborhood. Turkish folk beliefs involving the evil eye, sorcery and jinns as well as treatment of folk illnesses by religious mysticism and related procedures are described by O. M. ÖZTÜRK. A psychodynamic formulation is advanced to explain the persistence of folk therapies despite nearly twenty years of prohibitions out lawing their use.
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