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Spiritualism, Psychoanalysis, and psychodrama

Author(s) -

Bonilla Eduardo Seda

Publication year - 1969

Publication title -

american anthropologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51

H-Index - 85

eISSN - 1548-1433

pISSN - 0002-7294

DOI - 10.1525/aa.1969.71.3.02a00100

Subject(s) - spiritualism , psychodrama , psychoanalysis , id, ego and super ego , possession (linguistics) , existentialism , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , medicine , linguistics , alternative medicine , pathology

The term “fluids” of spiritualism seems related to the libido concept in psychoanalysis. A mental breakdown explained as possession by spirits with whom the patient has been in contact in another existence (existential situation) seems to have affinity with a phenomena similar to what psychoanalysts call a “flooding of the ego by a return of the repressed.” When compared with psychotherapeutic practice, spiritualism reveals clear affinities with psychodrama.

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