Djinnati: Dissociation and Possession Trance Disorder in Baluchistan, Iran

Autor:	Mohsen Kianpoor, George F. Rhoades
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History medicine.medical_specialty Sociology and Political Science business.industry Significant difference Dissociative Experiences Scale Trance Possession (law) Political Science and International Relations Medicine Psychiatric hospital business Psychiatry
Zdroj:	The Journal of the Middle East and Africa. 4:315-323
ISSN:	2152-0852 2152-0844
DOI:	10.1080/21520844.2013.866922
Popis:	This article covers the presentation of djinnati as a culture-bound syndrome and a possession trance disorder. Three studies conducted in Baluchistan, Iran, are presented and reviewed. The first study was of ten patients (one male and nine female, with one female being from Pakistan) who presented as having a discrete identity or entity known as djinn. The symptoms of djinnati are delineated, along with the treatment by local healers. The second study concerned the prevalence of djinnati at the inpatient ward of Baharan Psychiatric Hospital in Zahedan, Iran. The subjects were 150 inpatients (61 male and 89 female) chosen from an admissions pool of 773 patients. Psychodiagnostic interviews by a psychiatrist and a psychologist revealed that 32 of the 150 inpatients had djinnati symptoms. There was also a significant difference between the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) scores for nondjinnati patients (23.85) and the scores of those patients identified as having djinnati symptoms (38.89). Prevalence of...
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