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Today, in South Africa, young people are turning to traditional healers.

Access to a psychologist or a psychiatrist is just way too expensive and it's easier to go to a traditional healer.

But why are South Africans now saying these traditional healers are essential to their mental health?

I'm Kevin Horton and this is The Take.

So, you know, when you think of like psychology, maybe you picture like a psychologist or a psychiatrist in Manhattan sitting on a chair, maybe with spectacles.

You know, that's the kind of archetypal look.

We wanted to show different cultures, different corners of the world, approach psychology

in a different way.

Drew Ambrose has been thinking about psychiatry, psychology, and mental health for several

months now.

I'm Drew Ambrose. I'm an international correspondent with Al Jazeera, and I love my job. I travel around the world

making documentaries. His last documentary series, Mindset, is about the different methods of mental

health healing worldwide.

We're in Iceland for the summer. This country also has one of the highest rates of antidepressant use in the world. We've seen how therapy is helping soldiers. But what about

the millions of civilians who've lost their homes? The war has created the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

There are now displaced people in communities across Ukraine.

I'm going to meet some of them.

This is Jamaica, a white sand wonderland.

Alas, I'm not here on vacation.

We're here to examine an emerging therapy that's making waves in mental health treatment.

Mental health is a global issue, Drew says.

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