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Trance and possession in Bali : a window on Western multiple personality, possession disorder, and suicide by Luh Ketut Suryani, Gordon D. Jensen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Trance and possession in Bali : a window on Western multiple personality, possession disorder, and suicide about?

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. 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.

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Luh Ketut Suryani, Gordon D. Jensen
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Published
1994
Language
EN
ISBN
9780195886108
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Psychology, Religion, Medical

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