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The conceptualization of mental illness and its treatment among the Zaramo tribe of Tanzania is described. Individual psychopathology, like many forms of individual expression, is not recognized. Distressed individuals are understood as manifesting a communal problem, and the community is the object of treatment. The Zaramo tribe would seem to operate by the same premises upon which many group therapy and "system treatment" methods base themselves.