Spirit healing, mental health, and emotion regulation

Zygon

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 409-422

  Koss Chioino, Joan D ^a,b,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Psychiatric illness; Puerto Rico; Ritual healing process; Spirit healing; Spirit mediums; Spiritism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845456262     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00672.x     Document Type: Article

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