Mudpacks and Prozac Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing
60 chapter practices. In nineteenth-century Travancore, the colonial-era princely state that later became part of the state ...
three therapies of south india 61 Much of the discourse and style of allopathic medicine is shaped by its Western and colonial ...
62 chapter eating, and suspecting that foods have been poisoned. I cannot claim to be able to explain this diff erence in ea ...
three therapies of south india 63 that off ers outpatient services and wards that can accommodate 500 male and female inpatien ...
64 chapter Statistical Manual (DSM) used by mental health professionals in the United States. Th e ICD is allegedly an inter ...
three therapies of south india 65 is normally given to schizophrenic patients, while fl uoxetine, which is used for treating d ...
66 chapter emphasis on these therapies. Pills are extraordinarily easy to use, and it is not hard to understand that an over ...
three therapies of south india 67 (priests/shamans) occasionally administered ayurvedic medications, and the talk therapy empl ...
68 chapter I am describing Amma-Narayana here as an incarnation of one, absolute deity or divinity rather than as one among ...
three therapies of south india 69 possessed but are also labeled as having a “mental illness” or “mental problems” by their fa ...
70 chapter A distinctive characteristic of large Hindu temples is that, unlike churches or mosques, they are not single stru ...
three therapies of south india 71 Each day the possessed and ill supplicants at Chottanikkara engage in an elaborate routine o ...
72 chapter coins and other off erings that are exchanged between devotees and the deity via the mediation of the priest. Th ...
three therapies of south india 73 Rajan spends most of his days in and around the temple and the lodge, and gets to know many ...
74 chapter Th e body will not be weak. Th e body will get something. Th en we will become “fresh.” It’s diffi cult to withst ...
three therapies of south india 75 allopathic hospitals. Several patients complained of adverse or painful eff ects of ECT wher ...
76 chapter possessed or have mental problems, some smaller temples engage in healing practices that resemble those at Chotta ...
three therapies of south india 77 and I would visit Beemapalli, we would meet at Trivandrum’s bustling East Fort bus stand to ...
78 chapter According to Secretary Maheen, the aff able director who I would often visit when I arrived to conduct research a ...
three therapies of south india 79 Secretary Maheen claimed that a majority of the non-mentally affl icted patients at Beemapal ...
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