Affecting Healing through Exorcism: Cases from Contemporary Japan
Andrea De Antoni explores experiences of spirit possession and healing through exorcism, by focusing on situated affects and interactions.
‘A Philosophy of Madness’ Book Forum: Part One
Jeremy Spandler reviews A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking (The MIT Press, 2020) by Wouter Kusters (translated by Nancy Forest-Flier). This is Part One of a Book Forum on A Philosophy
A Spiritual State of Mind?
This post by Adam J Powell is the third in a one-week takeover (Nov 30 – Dec 5 2020) of The Polyphony by Threshold Worlds, an interdisciplinary project exploring the nexus between dreams, narrative and liminal
‘Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry’: Book Review
Tehseen Noorani reviews Wiremu NiaNia, Allister Bush and David Epston’s Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry (Routledge, 2017). Māori cultural therapist Wiremu NiaNia and Pākehā [settler of European