title: Zār Spirit Possession in Iran and African Countries: Group Distress, Culture-Bound Syndrome or Cultural Concept of Distress?
authors.affiliation: Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Fahimeh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mianji
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, ImamHossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Yousef
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Semnani
keywords: African Countries; Cultural Concepts of Distress; Culture-Bound Syndrome; Globalization; Iran; Mental Illness; Spirit Possession; Zār