The belief in the transmigration of souls

Psychotherapy of a Druze patient with severe anxiety reaction

Bibliographic Data

ID9618511
AuthorsNetzer Daie (Hadassah Academic College), Eliezer Witztum (Jerusalem Mental Health Center, corresponding author), Mordechai Mark (Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps), Stanley Rabinowitz (Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps)
Year1992
Volume65
Issue2
Pages119-130
Publication date1992-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Medical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1129 • E-ISSN: 2056-5194
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.2044-8341.1992.tb01692.x
PMID1633117
OpenAlexW2028151770
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In this paper the culture‐sensitive psychotherapy of a 19‐year‐old Druze patient with severe anxiety reaction is described. The patient explained his anxiety and his symptoms as stemming from violent death in his former life and subsequent transmigration. The therapists joined the patient's explanatory model and previous traditional healing, adding hypnotic suggestion which relieved the symptoms. The relationship of patient symptomatology to cultural background, multiple personality disorder, possession and dissociation is discussed. The strategic combination of culture‐specific and modern psychiatric approaches is advocated in similar cases

Anxiety · Death anxiety · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Child Therapy and Development · Clinical Psychology · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications