Mental Disorders and the Symbolic Function of Therapeutic Rites in the Réunion Island Hindu Environment
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| ID | 2394592 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Yolande Govindama (Université René Descartes - Paris V), D K Li, V G Epishev, T D Radaeva |
| Ano | 2006 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 488-511 |
| Data de publicação | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Transcultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363461506066990 |
| PMID | 17090629 |
| OpenAlex | W17090629 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 6 |
This article describes two therapeutic rituals in the Hindu milieu on Réunion Island - walking on fire and piercing parts of the body in the Feast of Cavedy - to underscore the cultural representation of madness and the symbolic function of these rites in treatment. Madness is considered to be the result of a rupture of genealogy through denial of the founder, and of psychic-somatic unity, which leads the afflicted person to develop a fantasy of immortality. The two therapeutic rituals aim at reestablishing the debt to the founding ancestor by the symbolic reactualization of the original chaos, and at restoring the genealogy through a relationship between the penitent and the officiant, which brings the subject to accept his human condition as a mortal being
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| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,05 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
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