Colleen A Ward is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Psychology at the National University of Singapore.

• PART ONE: ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUESThe Cross-cultural Study of Altered States of Consciousness and Mental Health - Colleen A WardFrom Disease to Discourse - Michael LambekRemarks on the Conceptualization of Trance and Spirit PossessionPART TWO: ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY`Ravished of a Fiend′ - Simon KempDemonology and Medieval MadnessPossession Syndrome in India - C R Chandra ShekarHypnosis, Demonic Possession and Multiple Personality - Nicholas P SpanosStrategic Enactments and Disavowals of Responsibility for ActionsPossession and Exorcism - Psychopathology and Psychotherapy in a Magico-Religious Context - Colleen A WardPART THREE: THERAPEUTIC ASPECTS OF ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESSReligious Experiences as Self-Healing Mechanisms - J P Valla and Raymond PrinceTherapeutic Use of Altered States of Consciousness in Contemporary North American Indian Dance Ceremonials - Wolfgang JilekA Call to Heal - Stanley KrippnerEntry Patterns in Brazilian MediumshipHealing and Transformation - Richard KatzPerspectives on Development, Education and CommunityPART FOUR: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESSAltered States of Consciousness, Magical Thinking and Psychopathology - Leonard ZusneThe Case of Ludwig StaudenmaierSelf Presentation in Malaysian Spirit Seances - Raymond L M LeeA Dramaturgical Perspective on Altered States of Consciousness in Healing CeremoniesStressing Social Change and Songhay Possession - Paul StollerPower and Hallucinogenic States of Consciousness Among the Moche - Marlene Dobkin de RiosAn Ancient Peruvian Society

Colleen A Ward is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Psychology at the National University of Singapore.

• PART ONE: ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUESThe Cross-cultural Study of Altered States of Consciousness and Mental Health - Colleen A WardFrom Disease to Discourse - Michael LambekRemarks on the Conceptualization of Trance and Spirit PossessionPART TWO: ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY`Ravished of a Fiend′ - Simon KempDemonology and Medieval MadnessPossession Syndrome in India - C R Chandra ShekarHypnosis, Demonic Possession and Multiple Personality - Nicholas P SpanosStrategic Enactments and Disavowals of Responsibility for ActionsPossession and Exorcism - Psychopathology and Psychotherapy in a Magico-Religious Context - Colleen A WardPART THREE: THERAPEUTIC ASPECTS OF ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESSReligious Experiences as Self-Healing Mechanisms - J P Valla and Raymond PrinceTherapeutic Use of Altered States of Consciousness in Contemporary North American Indian Dance Ceremonials - Wolfgang JilekA Call to Heal - Stanley KrippnerEntry Patterns in Brazilian MediumshipHealing and Transformation - Richard KatzPerspectives on Development, Education and CommunityPART FOUR: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESSAltered States of Consciousness, Magical Thinking and Psychopathology - Leonard ZusneThe Case of Ludwig StaudenmaierSelf Presentation in Malaysian Spirit Seances - Raymond L M LeeA Dramaturgical Perspective on Altered States of Consciousness in Healing CeremoniesStressing Social Change and Songhay Possession - Paul StollerPower and Hallucinogenic States of Consciousness Among the Moche - Marlene Dobkin de RiosAn Ancient Peruvian Society

Colleen A Ward is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Psychology at the National University of Singapore.

• PART ONE: ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUESThe Cross-cultural Study of Altered States of Consciousness and Mental Health - Colleen A WardFrom Disease to Discourse - Michael LambekRemarks on the Conceptualization of Trance and Spirit PossessionPART TWO: ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY`Ravished of a Fiend′ - Simon KempDemonology and Medieval MadnessPossession Syndrome in India - C R Chandra ShekarHypnosis, Demonic Possession and Multiple Personality - Nicholas P SpanosStrategic Enactments and Disavowals of Responsibility for ActionsPossession and Exorcism - Psychopathology and Psychotherapy in a Magico-Religious Context - Colleen A WardPART THREE: THERAPEUTIC ASPECTS OF ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESSReligious Experiences as Self-Healing Mechanisms - J P Valla and Raymond PrinceTherapeutic Use of Altered States of Consciousness in Contemporary North American Indian Dance Ceremonials - Wolfgang JilekA Call to Heal - Stanley KrippnerEntry Patterns in Brazilian MediumshipHealing and Transformation - Richard KatzPerspectives on Development, Education and CommunityPART FOUR: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESSAltered States of Consciousness, Magical Thinking and Psychopathology - Leonard ZusneThe Case of Ludwig StaudenmaierSelf Presentation in Malaysian Spirit Seances - Raymond L M LeeA Dramaturgical Perspective on Altered States of Consciousness in Healing CeremoniesStressing Social Change and Songhay Possession - Paul StollerPower and Hallucinogenic States of Consciousness Among the Moche - Marlene Dobkin de RiosAn Ancient Peruvian Society