Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide

 Luh Ketut Suryani and Gordon D. Jensen

1993.  First Printing.  Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur
Octavo.  Gold letters over black boards in FINE condition in a like Brodart protected dust jacket.  xvi, 264pp.  Illustrations.  The book is a unique attempt to combine detailed ethnographic knowledge with expert diagnostic reporting;  the outcome is a rich evaluation of the ways that cross-cultural psychological properties can be shaped by culture-specific roles and expectations to produce a variety of dissociative behaviors.  Glossary.  Bibliography.  Index.