Embodied alternative identities. Bearing witness to a world that might have been.
Psychiatr Clin North Am
; 14(3): 769-86, 1991 Sep.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1946035
ABSTRACT
In all cultures, embodied alternative identities provoke powerful reactions among those who observe and interact with them. Although these entities are invariably understood to reflect intense subjective experiences, they represent much more than a public expression of a pathologic mental disorder. They form an integral part of the meaningful, highly complex, symbolic systems that both inform and reflect the local cultures in which they emerge. Consequently, an understanding of just how these entities learn to understand themselves may be the cross-cultural key to an understanding of just what they are.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Cross-Cultural Comparison
/
Dissociative Disorders
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
/
Qualitative_research
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Psychiatr Clin North Am
Year:
1991
Document type:
Article
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