Psychoanalytic Conversations With States of Spirit Possession - Beauty in Brokenness

This book emerged out of psychoanalytic doctoral research on the states of spirit possession in North India. In this book, Shalini Masih holds psychoanalytic conversations with people who experienced spirit possession. These conversations reveal a deeper link between the resea...

List of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter I: Allies Lighting Up a Dark Path
Chapter II: Various Beginnings
Chapter III: Engaging With Lives, Loosening the Grip of Terror
Chapter IV: Between Dread and Meaning
Chapter V: Psychoanalysis Under the Banyan Tree
Chapter VI: Ghosts as Messengers
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Shalini Masih is practicing as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in United Kingdom. She has taught psychoanalysis in institutions like Ambedkar University Delhi, India and Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Shalini Masih
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2023
• EAN: 9781666902112
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-211-2
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Mysticism, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, mysticism, Social & cultural anthropology, Psychoanalytical & Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis