ABSTRACT Background Academic conceptualizations of psychosis often overlook its transformational potential. By situating it against a horizon of influential theoretical and conceptual models of psychosis including such integrative paradigms as the biopsychosocial model, this paper outlines American integral theorist Ken Wilber’s four-quadrant framework. Methods By drawing on several of Wilber’s...
This paper attempts to characterize the key stages in the evolution of Western academia’s construction of shamans and shamanism as well as elucidate those factors that have underpinned particular constructions. In doing so, it draws on the writings of the late French philosopher Michel Foucault, and particularly on such Foucauldian motifs as episteme, knowledge, and power. A central argument...