Answering the Healers Call - Short

"What a Shaman Sees in a Mental Hospital" is an interview with Malidoma Somé about the state of mental health in the West. This short interview was recently conducted in Northern California with Zayin Cabot, and offers a more in depth response by Malidoma to the relationship of modernity to madness. Malidoma turns Western assumptions on their head, making a passionate call for taking an indigenous West African perspective on issues that have been labeled mental illness in the West.