Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review
March 1, 1996
Daniel Halperin
11 citations
An argument is made for the unthreading of two separate, if commonly intertwined, elements of spirit possession prac tices. The term "trance-possession" is frequently employed to designate either of these concepts, implying that trance and possession are essentially synonymous in nature. Yet the psychophysiologically altered states of consciousness known as trance constitute something...
Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review
March 1, 1996
2 citations
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Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review
October 1, 1972
W.G. Jilek
R. L. BERGMAN reports on the Navajo use of the mescaline-containing cactus peyote. He claims that their reactions to the ritual intake of peyote are beneficial and sometimes therapeutic, due to the cultural values and collective expectations which give positive meaning to the use of peyote. According to J. LUBART, the Mackenzie Delta Eskimo have failed to adjust certain cultural patterns and...
Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review
April 1, 1969
This section opens with a tentative classification made by P. M. YAP of atypical culture-bound reactive syndromes and of atypical and typical syndromes of "reactive psychosis." The second paper, by G. DEVEREUX, deals with hypnosis and suggestion in primitive societies and suggests some differences between primitive and industrialized societies in that respect. This is followed by a brief...
Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review
October 1, 1967
O. RIOS and M. DOBKIN, a Peruvian psychiatrist and an American anthro pologist ( a) review the literature on ayahuasca, a South American plant con taining Harmine, ( b) summarize earlier studies regarding its pharmacological and psychological effects, and ( c) describe its use in folk healing in Peru.
Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review
April 1, 1967
In a study of male patients suffering from cannabis intoxication in Morocco, C. CHRISTOZOV offers the most detailed description of chronic mental disorder attributed to cannabis in regions where that drug is in common use. J. and I. HAMER's article on spirit possession among the Sidamo of southwest Ehiopia presents new cultural and sociological data which must be added to the fast- growing...