Possession and jinn
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Jinn and mental health : looking at jinn possession in modern psychiatric practice
universal across cultures and is documented in many ethnographic studies. Khalifa &Hardie assert that possession states can be understood only through a combination of biological, anthropological, sociological, psychopathological and experimental perspectives. Psychiatrist and anthropologist Roland Littlewood sees possession as the belief that an individual has been entered by an alien spirit o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0141-0768,0141-0768
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.98.8.351