During our meetings with him, SD complained that his family had taken him to various hospitals in Oman and nearby countries to get him “treated,” which he strongly disliked. He had been diagnosed as having “depression” and “negative type schizophrenia.” But information on how such diagnoses were reached was patchy. Various psychotropic medications were prescribed but he never took them. In accordance with the local explanatory model of illness in Oman [7], his behavior was thought to be instigated by spirit possession, so the family also consulted various religious healers but to no avail. At one point, a local shaman was consulted with no benefit. On the whole, both traditional and biomedical interventions made little impact on his interpersonal functioning that deviated markedly from the expectations of his family.