Drawing on culturally sensitive approaches to the study of dissociation, in the present meta-analysis, we aimed to obtain pooled prevalence estimates for dissociative disorders and spirit possession and to test for the effect of nation-level individualism scores on the occurrence of pathological dissociation. Pooled odds ratios ( OR s) for the probability of women presenting with a dissociative...
Estimates suggest that meditation use is comparable to mental-health-service access in the United States. Understanding meditation-related adverse effects (AEs) is therefore critical. We aimed to (a) estimate the incidence of meditation-related unusual experiences and AEs using different methods and (b) identify sociodemographic and health-related characteristics predicting their incidence. We...