228 index
Raina, Dhruv, 48
Reiki ( Japanese healing system),
116–17
religious diversity, 25
religious therapies, 11, 12–13, 21, 42,
66–67; relief through, 184–86;
rituals of, 34–35; sensory
stimulation of, 75, 179, 185–86
remedial bias, 164
research assistants, 33–34, 93–96
research methods, 32–34
retreats, Christian, 86, 110
Rhodes, Lorna A., 55
Romanucci-Ross, Lola, 21
Roseman, Marina, 19, 163
Rubin, Beth A., 199
Rudolph, Lloyd, 200
Rudolph, Susanne, 200
Sadock, Benjamin, 55
Sai Baba, 144
sāmkhya (Hindu school of
philosophy), 44
Śankara, 142–44
sarppadōsham (inauspicious sign), 128
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, 37n6
schizophrenia, 166–67
Self, Donnie J., 167
self, the: dividiual or sociocentric, 28;
individual or egocentric, 28;
socially dispersed or socially
embedded, 29–30, 57, 92
Sen, G., 55
Sherpa shamanism, 19
shock therapy, electric. See
electroconvulsive therapy
Siddha medicine, 87
Singer, Merrill, 21
snehapana (ayurvedic medicated ghee
treatment), 52, 177–78
social suff ering, 38n6, 141
somatization, 37n6
Sri Aurobindo, 144
Sri Lanka, 168
Srivastava, Sanjay, 114
Strathern, Andrew, 38n6, 140
stress, 196. See also idioms of distress
substances, 144
suicide, 26, 94, 109, 136n11
sukham (health, happiness), 186
Susser, Ida, 21
syncretism: medical, 45, 80;
religious, 79taipooja (ritual piercing), 178
talapodichil (medicated mudpack
treatment), 11, 35, 52–53, 103,
159; cooling eff ect of, 173–74;
procedure, 173; reactions to, 168,
173–74
Tamil Nadu, 72, 76, 87, 114; childbirth
in, 179, 198
Tantric Hinduism, 144
teleology: in healing, 21
temples, 100–101. See also
Chottanikkara temple
tension, 195–96. See also idioms of
distress
Th anal Institute for Psychological
Services, 87
thangals (priests/shamans), Muslim,
66–67, 85
Th e Woman in the Body, 202
therapy, mental illness. See mental illness
therapy
Th iruvananthapuram. See Trivandrum
Th ompson, E. P., 199, 200
Th rift, Nigel, 200
time. See under healing; mental illness
therapy
Traditional Knowledge Digital
Library, 53
Travancore, 25, 39n17, 60, 180
treatment, mental illness. See mental
illness therapy
tribal medicine, 87