Revisiting Lambo’s pioneering work: the role of cultural factors in paranoid psychosis among the Yoruba tribe – 70-year old perspective: commentary, Afe and Ogunsemi

This commentary examines Thomas Adeoye Lambo's seminal 1955 article 'The Role of Cultural Factors in Paranoid Psychosis among the Yoruba Tribe,' published in the <i>Journal of Mental Science</i>, as the <i>British Journal of Psychiatry</i> was then known. Seventy years later, this groundbreaking work remains profoundly relevant to contemporary psychiatric practice and research.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry
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2025-11-24
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https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2025.10487
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Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
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Revisiting Lambo’s pioneering work: the role of cultural factors in paranoid psychosis among the Yoruba tribe – 70-year old perspective: commentary, Afe and Ogunsemi

Taiwo Opekitan Afe, Olawale Ogunsemi
The British Journal of Psychiatry
Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
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Revisiting Lambo’s pioneering work: the role of cultural factors in paranoid psychosis among the Yoruba tribe – 70-year old perspective: commentary, Afe and Ogunsemi

Taiwo Opekitan Afe, Olawale Ogunsemi
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This commentary examines Thomas Adeoye Lambo's seminal 1955 article 'The Role of Cultural Factors in Paranoid Psychosis among the Yoruba Tribe,' published in the <i>Journal of Mental Science</i>, as the <i>British Journal of Psychiatry</i> was then known. Seventy years later, this groundbreaking work remains profoundly relevant to contemporary psychiatric practice and research.

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Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
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