Dissociative experience and cultural neuroscience: Narrative, metaphor and mechanism

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-64

  Seligman, Rebecca ^a   Kirmayer, Laurence J ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultural psychiatry; Dissociation; Dissociative disorders; Healing; Possession; Trance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MAGIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WITCHCRAFT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAIN; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGIC; MENTAL HEALING; METAPHOR; NARRATION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 40149088422     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-007-9077-8     Document Type: Article

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