Trance and Possession in Bali : A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide

This book deals with Balinese psycho-social experiences in trance-possession states during traditional healing, religious ceremonials, dance, drama and gamelan performances, as well as in several mental disorders. It concludes that trance-possession in Bali is the same, phenomenologically, as multiple personality disorder (MPD) in the West. It also presents criteria for the diagnosis of possession in any culture, a new theory of possession, and multifold comparisons of trance-possession in Bali with MPD in the West.Suryani, Luh K. is the author of 'Trance and Possession in Bali : A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide', published 1994 under ISBN 9780195886108 and ISBN 0195886100.