Evaluation of a Common Method of Convulsion Therapy in Bantu Schizophrenics

Abstract

There seems little reason to believe that schizophrenia in the Bantu differs materially from the disease in other races, and no one thus far has produced conclusive evidence of fundamental differences between the symptoms of African and European schizophrenics. Nevertheless, certain diseases common in Europeans, are rare in Africans, others tend a different course, and the latter condition may perhaps apply to a somewhat variable disease like schizophrenia, especially considering the existence of certain factors which will be discussed.