(...) possession trance is... «Possession»
Napoli3 октября 2016(...) possession trance is to be understood as involving the psychological mechanism of dissociation. However, the personality that appears in a state of dissociation is one that results from learning during the process of initiation. (...) the individual's secondary personality which asserts itself in dissociation in response to certain clues is a socially imposed personality. Several points are involved here: (1) cultural learning--this is clearly evident in the high degree of shared patterning visible in possession trance; (2) the concept of of dissociation, and indeed regression in psychological terms, which offers an understanding of how such alterations in personality are possible; (3) the notion that this behaviour is not the result of individual pathology in spite of its similarity to the multiple-personality syndrome sometimes seen in patients in Western society. (...) In Haiti, dissociation into diverse (spirit) personalities fits in with the understanding people have of the universe, of gods, and of human nature. In the United Stated, it does not. here we expect a person to be "himself", to be predictable and consistent, and we are alarmed when behaviour does not fit expectations.
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