Traditional health practitioners’ understanding of spirit possession in Gauteng province, South Africa [PDF]
Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health SciencesBackground: Traditional health practitioners (THPs) understand spirit possession as a cultural or religious spirit occupying a person, while the mental healthcare providers understand it as a mental illness.
Ellen M. Thobakgale +2 more
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Specifics of Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome with religious delusion of possession in schizophrenia [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome with religious delusion of possession (KSRDP) in schizophrenia is insufficiently explored phenomenon. The syndrome characterized by significant severity of clinical state, high social risks and resistance to ...
E. Gedevani +3 more
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An essay on the Charcot and Richer hysteria: from charcoal drawings to cell phones [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-PsiquiatriaHysteria, previously also known as the disease of the womb, has moved from being a woman's illness through the medieval times' stigma of demonic possession, to the modern concept of a functional neurological disorder.
Marlon Wycliff Caeira +4 more
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The varieties of delusional syndrome of possession in schizophrenia [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Delusional Syndrome of Possession in schizophrenia (DSPS) is insufficiently explored. Although it characterized by significant severity of clinical state and resistance to psychopharmacotherapy, and may be accompanied by high social risks.
O. Borisova +4 more
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An Investigation on Demonic influences on human beings: Demonic Oppression or Demonic Possession: The Role of the Holy Spirit [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 It is not always easy when first approaching a troubled person to know the source of their distress. For instance, how does one differentiate between demonic possession and demonic oppression? Is there a difference?
Prof. Dr Godfrey Harold +1 more
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Isteria o possessione demoniaca? Un'inconsueta disputa iconologica [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2021 After Jean-Martin Charcot's studies, the paradigm of hysteria in its modern sense becomes the explanatory tool for investigating those phenomena that the Catholic tradition had always connected to supernatural expressions, such as mysticism and demonic ...
Roberta Vittoria Grossi
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Witchcraft, Demonic Possession and Exorcism: The Problem of Evidence in Two Shakespearean Plays
Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2021 Between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the crime of witchcraft was viewed with grave concern. A series of acts were passed with the aim of reinforcing the law; however, this did not mitigate the social alarm, but if anything, increased
Simona Laghi
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La melanconia delle streghe e delle possedute. Aspetti del dibattito medico-demonologico in Francia tra Cinquecento e Seicento [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2018 [The melancholy of witches and possessed women. Aspects of the medical-demonological debate in France between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries]. The numerous trials for witchcraft and demonic possession that took place in France between 1550 and ...
Cristina DESSI'
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The Demons of Judas and Mary Magdalene in Medieval Art
Religions, 2022 There are few specific studies on the demonic possession of Judas and Mary Magdalene, especially as regards the representation of these demons in medieval art.
Elena Monzón Pertejo +1 more
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Le Gascon extravagant, la valeur de l’expérience et la fiction comme discours d’histoire (de Loudun)
Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2007 Le Gascon extravagant, value of experience and fiction as a speech on the history (of Loudun) : In this paper, I question the relation between the novel of the Gascon and the event of the demonic possession of the Ursulines in Loudun. This event is never
Laurence Giavarini
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