Mental illness or spiritual illness: what should we call it?
Mental illness or spiritual illness: what should we call it? Journal Article
Medical Journal of Australia
- Author(s): Moffit, L.
- Published: 2011
- Volume: 194
Abstract: With permission from my son I am able to tell this story. I have not used his name for privacy reasons. I would like to dedicate this essay to the many Indigenous people who have passed away in psychiatric hospitals and did not make it home to their families and communities. “Historical trauma” is defined as the subjective experiencing and remembering of events in the mind of an individual or the life of a community, passed from adults to children in cyclic processes as “collective emotional and psychological injury . . . over the life span and across generations”.