Transes, crises e diagnósticos
Lucas Baccetto
February 25, 2021 DOI: 10.47749/t/unicamp.2021.1162367 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Qualitative study |
|---|---|
| Topics | Mysticism |
| Keywords | Trance Spirituality Possession linguistics Religious experience Psychotherapist Transpersonal psychology Transcendental number Psychoanalysis Epistemology Anthropology |
| Key findings | The creation of the DSM categories 'religious or spiritual problem' and 'dissociative trance disorder' shows how psychiatrists and psychologists use concepts from transpersonal psychology and dissociation studies to frame religious and spiritual experiences as either normal or pathological. |
Abstract
The object of this research is the recent debates carried out by psychiatrists and psychologists around the theme of religion and spirituality. The empirical focus is the creation, of two diagnostic categories in the main guide to psychiatric diagnoses in the United States, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in 1994: "religious or spiritual problem" and "dissociative trance disorder". The analysis focuses on how the proponents of these two diagnoses articulate a series of psychological and anthropological concepts, conceptualizing religious and spiritual experiences as normal phenomena or as psychopathologies. It is also of interest the relation of their productions in the field of transpersonal psychology and in studies on psychological dissociation. From the reading of scientific articles, academic works, and interviews, we seek to understand how new and distinct psychological understandings about phenomena such as religious trance, spiritual possession, and transcendental experience are produced.
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Citations in the library
Cites 10
- Rediscovering the Later Version of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Self-Transcendence and Opportunities for Theory, Research, and Unification Review of General Psychology December 1, 2006
- Transpersonal psychology: Defining the past, divining the future. The Humanistic Psychologist 2007
- Brief History of Transpersonal Psychology International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 2008
- Spiritual Emergency: The Understanding and Treatment of Transpersonal Crises International Journal of Transpersonal Studies September 1, 2017
- Health and the holy in African and Afro-American spirit possession. Social Science & Medicine 1987
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