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With their mix of religious guidance and sympathy, Central Asia’s traditional healers are a popular alternative to psychiatric help. SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan–In his 1999 study of worldwide suicide rates, David Lester, of the U.S.-based Center for the Study of Suicide, concluded that suicide rates in post-Soviet countries were higher in places with a higher quality of […]