Madness and Religious Experience with Richard Saville-Smith
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The Importance of Possession in Psychiatry
"Psychiatry has always done mental disorder. And what I'm interested in is that if you look at shamanism and again, this is something that's picked up within psychedelic research," he says. "I see my book as signposting backwards and saying the prevalence of madness is much greater in human history than we think"
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