Psychiatry and the Popular Conception of Possession Among the Bangladeshis in London

Ruma Bose
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Ruma Bose: Wellington Way Health Centre, 1a Wellington Way, Bow, London E3 4NE, UK

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1997, vol. 43, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Two detailed case histories of young people possessed by spirits are presented to show that expressions of distress are shaped by cultural beliefs from the very inception. It stands in marked contrast to the Western psychiatric view of posses sion beliefs as cultural explanations offered for underlying pathological processes. This has serious implications for the practice of psychiatry in increasingly multi cultural societies.

Date: 1997
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