Trance and Possession in Bali by Suryani & Jensen 1993

Trance and Possession in Bali

by Luh Ketut Suryani Gordon D. Jensen

Published by Oxford University Press Kuala Lumpur 1993

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 also presents criteria for the diagnosis of possession in any culture, a new theory of possession, and multifold comparisons of trance-possession in Bali with MPD in the West.

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