Manual of Cultural Psychiatry

• Abeokuta - A clinical and geographical eponym associated with the city of Abeokuta in Nigeria, used by pioneers of transcultural psychiatry (such as Thomas Adeoye Lambo) to describe a revolutionary model of community psychiatric treatment (the Abeokuta syndrome or experiment). The concept analyzes the therapeutic integration of patients with acute psychoses or schizophrenia into open clinical villages, blending Western psychiatric techniques with traditional social support and local healing practices, serving as a universal model for modern psychiatric deinstitutionalization.