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Comment
. 2018 Jan:41:e82.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17002138.

Psychosis is episodically required for the enduring integrity of shamanism

Joseph Polimeni  1
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Psychosis is episodically required for the enduring integrity of shamanism

Joseph Polimeni. Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan.

Abstract

The target article advances several original concepts about shamanism, including prospective explanations for how shamanism could express itself in different cultural settings. Although the potential for "innate psychological tendencies" is acknowledged, the target article prematurely dismisses one such hard-wired feature of shamanism: psychosis.

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