While Psychology and Anthropology share certain overlapping interests, there is no agreed schema or paradigm for this area. Rejecting both psychoanalysis and the biopsychosocial model as insufficient, this collection brings together studies on Hasidic concepts of illness, the religious origins of schizophrenia, Christian stigmata, the "third sex" in Albania, jinn possession among European immigrants, and reincarnation among the Druze. The volume argues for plural models integrating biological, psychodynamic, and sociocultural perspectives. It highlights the enduring tension between Psychiatry's naturalistic explanations and Anthropology's personalistic approach, suggesting that both offer partial yet essential insights into human experience.
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Table of contents
- Between Anthropology and Psychiatry
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Effectiveness of Words
- Chapter 2. Cultural Performance - Lubavitch Messianism
- Chapter 3. Did Christianity Lead to Schizophrenia?
- Chapter 4. Religious Stigmata, Magnetic Fluids and Conversion Hysteria
- Chapter 5. Jinn, Psychiatry and Contested Notions of Misfortune
- Chapter 6. The Use of Traditional Healing in South Asian Psychiatric Patients in the UK
- Chapter 7. Trauma and the Kanun
- Chapter 8. Druze Reincarnation as a Therapeutic Resource
- Chapter 9. Apocalyptic Suicide
- Chapter 10. The Advent of the Adversary
- Chapter 11. Religion and Psychosis
- Chapter 12. Neglect as Project
- Chapter 13. Against Belief
- Conclusion
- Index
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