Trance and Treatment

Trance and TreatmentThis book provides a brief, disciplined technique for mobilizing and learning from an individual's capacity to concentrate. Putting to rest both fears about hypnosis and overblown statements of its efficacy, this compelling volume brings scientific discipline to a systematic exploration of the clinical uses and limitations of hypnosis.

This is the first ethnographic work by a South Asian author on demographic anxieties and reproduction in Germany and reverses the anthropological gaze to study Europe as the ‘Other

but soon finds that his compulsiveness proves a poor match for the patience and cunning required of the craft

ethnic experiences

A new interpretation of Hindu tradition focusing on the nature of God

conscious of pitfalls and biases

including the members of Confucianism and the neo-liberal order

and the harassment of an anarchist commune on south Puget Sound in 1902

He then provides a detailed architectural analysis of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun

systematic analyses of media materials

and his sufferings and terrible grief both before and after his wife's death

intercultural Information ethics

Also included are treatment options