Spirit Possession Or A Phenomenon Of Crying Identity!
Gulnar Ali
i-manager's Journal on Nursing 2012 DOI: 10.26634/jnur.2.1.1817 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that health care professionals should adopt a transcultural psychiatric perspective that integrates socio-cultural, ontological, and epistemological dimensions of human life and suffering. Through analysis of spirit possession among Muslim women, the paper identifies gender disparities and their socio-cultural manifestations, and proposes a meaning-based, client-centered caring discourse to help patients renew identity and social status. |
Abstract
Human nature is very complex and it is constantly influenced by external socio-cultural processes, which not only affect patient's explanations about somatization but also affect person's recovery and rehabilitation on an ongoing basis. Hence, by integrating multiple aspects of human life, health care professionals can promote personal wellbeing for their patients as a whole. Such integrated approach will enable patients, to renew their identity, and reconstruct their status in society by participating in the shared and symbolic communal ideologies. Hence, this paper is an attempt to sensitize nurses with a transcultural psychiatric perspective in order to recognize the ontological and epistemological aspect of human life and suffering. By analyzing varieties of cultural fabrications, medical explanations and underlying socio-political ethos behind the phenomenology of spirit possession in Muslim women, this paper identifies gender disparities and its socio -cultural manifestations, justifying the need of a meaning based and client centered caring discourse.