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Trance and possession in Bali : a window on Western multiple personality, possession disorder, and suicide
- Title
- Trance and possession in Bali : a window on Western multiple personality, possession disorder, and suicide / Luh Ketut Suryani, Gordon D. Jensen.
- Author
- Suryani, Luh Ketut, 1944-
- Publication
- Kuala Lumpur ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BL2120.B2 S88 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Jensen, Gordon D.
- Description
- xvi, 264 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Trance in Bali has not been studied extensively since Belo's descriptions of the 'possession state' fifty years ago. In this book, the authors describe the psycho-social experiences of the Balinese in trance-possession states during traditional healing, dance, drama, and gamelan performance, as well as in several mental disorders, and arrive at the conclusion that Balinese trance-possession is the same process as multiple personality disorder (MPD) in the West. The authors then go on to develop criteria for the diagnosis of possession and to present a new theory of possession. They also offer multifold comparisons of normal trance-possession in the Balinese with the condition called MPD in the West. A collaboration between a Western psychiatrist with wide experience of Balinese culture and mental health and a Western-trained Balinese steeped in the local culture, this book will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, suicidologists, and allied mental health professionals.
- Subject
- Trance > Indonesia > Bali Island
- Demoniac possession > Indonesia > Bali Island
- Spiritual healing > Indonesia > Bali Island
- Multiple personality > Cross-cultural studies
- Psychiatry and religion
- Demoniac possession
- Multiple personality
- Psychiatry and religion
- Religion
- Spiritual healing
- Trance
- Besessenheitskult
- Ritual
- Bezetenheid
- Bali Island (Indonesia) > Religion
- Indonesia > Bali Island
- Bali
- Genre/Form
- Cross-cultural studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-258) and index.
- ISBN
- 0195886100
- 9780195886108
- 9676531146
- 9789676531148
- LCCN
- 93020252
- OCLC
- ocm27676406
- 27676406
- SCSB-2008392
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library