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Vijaya Ramaswamy

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Spiritual Hysteria: A Gendered Perspective

Anthem Press eBooks March 5, 2012 Vijaya Ramaswamy 1 citation

Trances, visions, speaking in many tongues, irrational social behaviour including the discarding of clothes have been widely interpreted by psychoanalysts as a psychopathological condition. However, parapsychologists are increasingly looking at the grey zone that blurs the rigidly held distinctions between psychoses and spirituality. Stanislav Grof, in his remarkable book Beyond the Brain:...