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Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide
Trance and Possession in Bali A Window on Western Multiple Personality Possession Disorder and Suicide
Author: Luh Ketut Suryani, Gordon D. Jensen
This book deals with Balinese psycho-social experiences in trance-possession states during traditional healing, religious ceremonials, dance, drama and gamelan performances, as well as in several mental disorders. It concludes that trance-possession in Bali is the same, phenomenologically, as — multiple personality disorder (MPD) in the West. It ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195886108
ISBN-10: 0195886100
Publication Date: 2/17/1994
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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