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Toward a culture-informed treatment of trauma

December 22, 2010Prachi Gangwaniblog0

Prachi Gangwani explores the psychological side to being possessed by a ‘spirit’ and takes a culturally rational approach to tackling superstitious beliefs like possession and exorcism.

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What I am about to say might infuriate the feminists here. But be patient and stay with me awhile. Sympathy is easy. Empathy is hard. Harder it is to empathise with someone who has suffered from things too atrocious for one’s imagination. Harder still is to empathise with the perpetrator. And it is this that [...]