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Shamanism and psychosis: Shared mechanisms?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2018

Albert R. Powers III  and
Philip R. Corlett
Albert R. Powers III
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT 06519 albert.powers@yale.edu philip.corlett@yale.edu http://www.nrtp.yale.edu/residents/albert_powers-1.profile http://psychiatry.yale.edu/people/philip_corlett.profile
Philip R. Corlett
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT 06519 albert.powers@yale.edu philip.corlett@yale.edu http://www.nrtp.yale.edu/residents/albert_powers-1.profile http://psychiatry.yale.edu/people/philip_corlett.profile
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Abstract

Individual-specific predispositions may precede the cultural evolution of shamanism and may be linked to it via principles of predictive coding. We have used these principles to identify commonalities between clinical and shaman-like non-clinical voice-hearers. The author may find this approach helpful in relating the experiences of shamans to those of their clients.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e83
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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