From Affliction to Affirmation

Narrative Transformation and the Therapeutics of Candomblé Mediumship

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2394536
AutoresRebecca Seligman (0000-0002-9402-0322, McGill University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen42
Número2
Páginas272-294
Fecha de publicación2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTranscultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363461505052668
PMID16114586
OpenAlexW2089103849
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas25
Referencias citadas37

Through the presentation and analysis of a prototypical mediumship narrative, this article shows how individuals initiated into the Candomblé religion of north-eastern Brazil come to alter their own self-narratives by learning and internalizing the cultural model for an established social/religious role: that of the medium. As individuals come to identify with this 'role model,' they are able to reinterpret their own life histories in terms of the model's structure and its symbolic content. This article also demonstrates how the social articulation and cognitive internalization of this new self-narrative act therapeutically, to foster a positive transformation in self-understanding that facilitates positive behavior

Art · Articulation (sociology · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity