Shalini Masih is practicing as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in United Kingdom. She has taught psychoanalysis in institutions like Ambedkar University Delhi, India and Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

This remarkable book by one of the most creative people of the younger generation of Indian psychoanalysts and is an absolute triumph. With impeccable prose and breathtaking narratives, Shalini Masih transports readers to a world where psychoanalysis has rarely ventured, the world of spirit possession in which mental illness is expressed in most of the non-Western world.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter I: Allies Lighting Up a Dark PathChapter II: Various BeginningsChapter III: Engaging With Lives, Loosening the Grip of TerrorChapter IV: Between Dread and MeaningChapter V: Psychoanalysis Under the Banyan TreeChapter VI: Ghosts as MessengersReferences IndexAbout the Author

Shalini Masih is practicing as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in United Kingdom. She has taught psychoanalysis in institutions like Ambedkar University Delhi, India and Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

This remarkable book by one of the most creative people of the younger generation of Indian psychoanalysts and is an absolute triumph. With impeccable prose and breathtaking narratives, Shalini Masih transports readers to a world where psychoanalysis has rarely ventured, the world of spirit possession in which mental illness is expressed in most of the non-Western world.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter I: Allies Lighting Up a Dark PathChapter II: Various BeginningsChapter III: Engaging With Lives, Loosening the Grip of TerrorChapter IV: Between Dread and MeaningChapter V: Psychoanalysis Under the Banyan TreeChapter VI: Ghosts as MessengersReferences IndexAbout the Author

Shalini Masih is practicing as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in United Kingdom. She has taught psychoanalysis in institutions like Ambedkar University Delhi, India and Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

This remarkable book by one of the most creative people of the younger generation of Indian psychoanalysts and is an absolute triumph. With impeccable prose and breathtaking narratives, Shalini Masih transports readers to a world where psychoanalysis has rarely ventured, the world of spirit possession in which mental illness is expressed in most of the non-Western world.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter I: Allies Lighting Up a Dark PathChapter II: Various BeginningsChapter III: Engaging With Lives, Loosening the Grip of TerrorChapter IV: Between Dread and MeaningChapter V: Psychoanalysis Under the Banyan TreeChapter VI: Ghosts as MessengersReferences IndexAbout the Author