title: [Failure of a mourning ritual and reactive depression].
abstract: In some African societies, mourning rituals are a way of isolating death from the territory of the living and to allow the bereaved to regain, after a certain time, their place in society. However, for a young educated woman confronted with the brutal death of her sister, the traditional ritual to which her family subjected her resulted in a prolonged reactive depression combined with cognitive disorders..
authors.affiliation: Clinique Psychiatrique Moussa Diop de Fann, Dakar, Sénégal. papelaminefaye@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Pape Lamine
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Faye
authors.forename: Mamadou Habib
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Thiam
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D001601:Bereavement; D002562:Ceremonial Behavior; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008880:Midwifery; D011363:Professional Impairment; D012675:Senegal; D035781:Siblings