From distress to disease: a critique of the medicalisation of possession in DSM-5.
Anthropology & medicine December 1, 2017 Divya Padmanabhan 8 citations
This paper critiques the category of possession-form dissociative identity disorder as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (DSM-5) published in 2013 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The DSM as an index of psychiatry pathologises possession by categorising it as a form of dissociative identity disorder. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork, this...