128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
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The most deviant forms of human behaviour can be disturbing, incomprehensible, and sometimes very frightening. Herschel Prins believes that even the most deviant-seeming behaviours have their counterparts in ‘normality’ and can often be seen as an extension of this. In Bizarre Behaviours he sets some extreme forms of behaviour, such as vampirism and amok, in their socio-cultural and... Read more
Acknowledgements Foreword 1 Context and purpose 2 Some less familiar psychiatric conditions 3 Besieged by devils: possession and possession states 4 Some so-called culture-bound syndromes 5 Blood relations: unusual encounters with death and the dead 6 Concluding comments Additional reading Index
Biography
Herschel Prins
‘Bizarre Behaviours is provocative in the best sense. It provokes some difficult questions. Herschel Prins has asked himself these questions and tried to answer them... He is to be congratulated on achieving a balanced presentation of a theme that is fraught with pitfalls.’
Murray Cox MA DPM FRCPsych
