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[Luh Ketut Suryani, Gordon D. Jensen] ☆ Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide It concludes that trance-possession in Bali is the same, phenomenologically, as multiple personality disorder (MPD) in the West. It also presents criteria for the diagnosis of possession in any culture, a new theory of possession, and multifold comparisons of trance-possession in Bali with MPD in the West.. This book deals with Balinese psycho-social experiences in trance-possession states during traditional healing, religious ceremonials, dance, drama and gamelan performances, as well as in sev
| Title | : | Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195886100 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
"The book is a unique attempt to combine detailed ethnographic knowledge with expert diagnostic reporting; the outcome is a rich evaluation of the ways that cross-cultural psychological properties can be shaped by culture-specific roles and expectations to prouuce a variety of dissociative behaviors."--Choice
Gordon D. Luh Ketut Suryani, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University. . Jensen, Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California
It concludes that trance-possession in Bali is the same, phenomenologically, as multiple personality disorder (MPD) in the West. It also presents criteria for the diagnosis of possession in any culture, a new theory of possession, and multifold comparisons of trance-possession in Bali with MPD in the West.. This book deals with Balinese psycho-social experiences in trance-possession states during traditional healing, religious ceremonials, dance, drama and gamelan performances, as well as in several mental disorders
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