Differential executive functioning in the topology of Spirit possession or dissociative disorders: an explorative cultural study.
BMC Psychiatry December 2, 2019 Samir Al-Adawi, Yahya Al-Kalbani, Sathiya Murthi Panchatcharam et al. 14 citations
In Oman, anecdotal and impressionistic observation have helped parse and categorize various manifestations of spirit possession into two broad and distinct categories: intermittent dissociative phenomenon and transitory dissociative phenomenon. The primary aim of the present study was to compare the performance of participants on neuropsychological tests among different grades of possession....
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Executive functioning
Intermittent dissociative phenomenon
Oman
Spirit possession
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