ABSTRACT
Witchcraft and evil spirits may seem exotic to us, but in a sense because of this fascination these issues should cause few problems in therapy. If the therapist is able to start from the idea of the non-rational and from the assumption that all kinds of ideas have a function to those who hold them, then further exploration will be possible. With Alice, I followed a line of what can be called ethnographic questions in order to understand how her system—which included not only disrupted care relationships but also good and evil spirits—worked. It may be harder to do this when the line of enquiry concerns ordinary and less obviously different ideas from those we ourselves may hold.
