Mind Over Mind: The Anthropology and Psychology of Spirit Possession

by Morton Klass

Book Overview

Mind Over Mind explores the phenomenon of spirit possession from both anthropological and psychological perspectives. Spirit possession is ritually important in many cultures from India to Brazil to Madagascar, but has tended to be narrowly regarded from modern American and European perspectives as a psychopathological problem of multiple personality disorder. This book proposes an integration of anthropological and psychological approaches, concluding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742526763
• ISBN13: 9780742526761
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"