Madness between medicine and the devil's touch: Comparative study on symptoms and personality traits

MENA Dubai 2003 Abstract

Author Osama Al Gili and Mostafa Youssef
Copy This study sought to determine the differences and similarities in symptoms and personality traits in persons suffering from madness and in persons suffering from devil's touch. The sample consisted of 100 people divided into two groups: one group of persons suffering from madness (25 males and 25 females) has been chosen randomly from modern medical therapeutic centers, another group of 50 persons suffering from devil's touch (25 males and 25 females) has been chosen from traditional (popular) therapeutic centers.

In order to gather reports from the participants, the Cattle questionnaire for symptoms and personality test has been chosen.

The study concluded that there are similarities in cognitive and emotional symptoms in persons suffering from medical madness and in persons suffering from devil's touch. The percentage of motor and behavioral symptoms in persons suffering from medical madness is similar in females and in males.

This percentage is more important in females suffering from devil's touch than in males from the same group. All persons suffering from medical and devil's madness have a low intelligence level, and are not interested in intellectual issues, are not emotionally mature, easily provoked, tend to be shy and are not capable of confronting the opposite gender.