Pathologizing Possession: An Essay on Mind, Self, and Experience in Dissociation
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2003 Ashwin Budden
In this paper, critique the classic psychoanalytic anthropological construal of dissociative spirit possession as a pathological phenomenon. I review some of the relevant theoretical and ethnographic literature on this subject but focus on the work of two prominent psychoanalytic anthropologists to explore divergent views of the psychological nature of pathological and religious experience....