Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa

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Title: Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in AfricaAuthor: Paul R. Linde
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2002
240 pages

This medical memoir describes Linde's experiences as a visiting psychiatrist in Zimbabwe. In general it's affectionate, culturally sensitive, and informative. Linde describes the setting and the people well, and while I sometimes wonder about his ways of investigating and managing psychiatric presentations (as a psychologist, I get to play "spot the differential diagnosis" as I read), but then, I'm sure he'd say the same if I wrote a memoir about my own work.