Chasing dön spirits in Tibetan medical encounters: Transcultural affordances and embodied psychiatry in Amdo, Qinghai.
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DOI: 10.1177/13634615221126058
Abstract: Although spirit possession is generally considered a psychiatric illness, the class of conditions designated as dön (Tib. gdon, "afflictive external influences," often glossed as "spirit affliction") in Tibetan medicine represents a distinctive paradigm for an… read more here.
Keywords: psychiatry; spirits tibetan; etiology; chasing spirits ... See more keywords