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This distinctive volume examines the psychological claims of spirit possession and psychosis as they are linked to child sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and poor mental health.

In the context of both clinical complaints and community-based determinants, this book uses Jungian and Fanonian theory, political history, and case study analysis to explore the systems at work in projecting internalized traumas of colonialism and personal powerlessness onto a scapegoated demonic presence affecting victims/survivors of sexual violence. It focuses on populations of the global south but is relevant to victims of oppression worldwide, considering the personal unconscious and cultural complexes that influence a sense of being overtaken and controlled by supernatural or intrapsychic forces, or a desire to be.

Psychosis, Spirit Possession and Child Sexual Abuse offers an alternative framework for understanding mental processes that lead to symptoms such as auditory or v

Psychosis Spirit Possession and Child Sexual

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 11/12/2024
      ISBN13: 9781032122113, 978-1032122113
      ISBN10: 1032122110
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This distinctive volume examines the psychological claims of spirit possession and psychosis as they are linked to child sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and poor mental health.

      In the context of both clinical complaints and community-based determinants, this book uses Jungian and Fanonian theory, political history, and case study analysis to explore the systems at work in projecting internalized traumas of colonialism and personal powerlessness onto a scapegoated demonic presence affecting victims/survivors of sexual violence. It focuses on populations of the global south but is relevant to victims of oppression worldwide, considering the personal unconscious and cultural complexes that influence a sense of being overtaken and controlled by supernatural or intrapsychic forces, or a desire to be.

      Psychosis, Spirit Possession and Child Sexual Abuse offers an alternative framework for understanding mental processes that lead to symptoms such as auditory or v

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