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Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
Prayer, a repeated practice of paying attention to one's inner mental world, is a core behavior across many faiths and traditions, understudied by cognitive scientists. Previous research suggests that humans pray because prayer changes the way they feel or how they think. This paper makes a novel argument: that prayer changes what they feel that they perceive.
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Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova
December 2024
Mental Health Research Center, Moscow, Russia.
The spiritual possession phenomenon (SPP), is a complex transnosological, transcultural syndrome, which is based on the patients' perception that some spiritual entity (spirit, demon, jinn, shaitan, «ikotka», dybbuk, Buddha, etc.) is influencing or possessing them. Modern classifications of diseases, aimed at expanding our ideas about the distinction between the norm and pathology of mental disorders, do not contribute to a clear psychopathological differentiation of SPP, the determination of its nosological affiliation and the choice of appropriate therapeutic tactics for these conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmina: Shaking Boundaries of a Woman Inhabited by the Spirits (Senegal).
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Bellas Artes, Institución Universitaria del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
In this article, I present the individual ethnography of Amina, a Senegalese woman possessed by the spirits of her lineage. Amina's story shows the lacerations of a person who simultaneously inhabits two worlds: the traditional Lebou culture and the Western one. When her spirits manifest themselves, she is forced to choose between two different interpretations of her suffering: the traditional persecutory and the Western psychopathological.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTraditional health practitioners' understanding of spirit possession in Gauteng province, South Africa.
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March 2024
Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Background: Traditional health practitioners (THPs) understand spirit possession as a cultural or religious spirit occupying a person, while the mental healthcare providers understand it as a mental illness. The different understanding is based on manifestations that mimic that of mental illness, such as seeing and hearing things that others cannot see or hear. Spirit possession holds different meanings in different cultures and religions that could be either beneficial or detrimental.
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Article Synopsis
- Trance and possession disorder (TPD) involves altered states of consciousness, with trance being marked by temporary changes without an alternate identity, while possession includes a new identity often linked to spiritual or cultural beliefs.
- The phenomenon varies widely depending on cultural context, emotional stress, and sociocultural issues.
- A case study from Maharashtra, India, illustrates a patient with TPD and dysthymia, showing how addressing the underlying mood disorder led to the cessation of trance episodes.
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