Mind over mind : the anthropology and psychology of spirit possession / Morton Klass.

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Klass, Morton, 1927-2001

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0585466785
9780585466781
1306157250
9781306157254

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133.4/26 21

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BF1555 .K58 2003eb

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Contents:

Unanswered questions and unbridgeable chasms -- Culture as against "culture" -- The spirits are willing -- "Not for us to judge" -- Consciousness and dissociation : paradigms lost -- Dissociative disorders and the human mind -- Dissociation and spirit possession.

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Summary: Mind Over Mind explores the phenomenon of spirit possession from both anthropological and psychological perspectives. Spirit possession is ritually important in many cultures from India to Brazil to Madagascar, but has tended to be narrowly regarded from modern American and European perspectives as a psychopathological problem of multiple personality disorder. This book proposes an integration of anthropological and psychological approaches, concluding with a new analytical framework for understanding spirit possession and resolving the controversy surrounding the 'reality' of possession. The.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.

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Mind Over Mind explores the phenomenon of spirit possession from both anthropological and psychological perspectives. Spirit possession is ritually important in many cultures from India to Brazil to Madagascar, but has tended to be narrowly regarded from modern American and European perspectives as a psychopathological problem of multiple personality disorder. This book proposes an integration of anthropological and psychological approaches, concluding with a new analytical framework for understanding spirit possession and resolving the controversy surrounding the 'reality' of possession. The.

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