Trance, functional psychosis, and culture

Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-21

  Castillo, Richard J ^a,b  

^a University of Hawaii West Oahu   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGO; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MEDITATION; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RELIGION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; HALLUCINATIONS; HINDUISM; HUMANS; MEDITATION; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 0037359250     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.66.1.9.20285     Document Type: Article

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