Tamang Shamans An Ethnopsychiatric Study Of Ecstasy And Healing In Nepal

This book interpret the shaman's role in the Tamang segment of the Nepalese society as analogous to the psychotherapist's role in the contemporary Western world.This analogy has already been pointed out but it has rarely, if ever, been so convincingly demonstrated. The author show's how Tamang shamans relieve the mental tensions of their patients, cure illnesses, and by doing so restore equilibrium in disturbed interpersonal relationships within a family or village community. It is sometimes by solving social conflicts that the Shaman heals the afflicted.