Intrusive agents and permeable selves: Spirit consultations in denmark

• Autores: Vibeke Steffen
• Localización: Of Bodies and Symptoms: Anthropological Perspectives on their Social and Medical Treatment / coord. por Sylvie Fainzang, Claudie Haxaire, 2011, ISBN 978-84-694-4991-2, págs. 79-95
• Idioma: inglés
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  • An unknown number of people in modern societies suffer from disturbing problems such as encounters with spirits or ghosts and misfortunes transferred from random passers-by. We might think of these experiences as psychotic symptoms to be treated by medicine. The participants in this study, however, chose to deal with their problems in other ways by consulting spiritualist mediums. The aim of the article is to explore the character of their problems and the ways in which they were dealt with.