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Author Vogt, Beatrice.

Title Skill and trust : the tovil healing ritual of Sri Lanka as culture-specific psychotherapy / Beatrice Vogt ; translated into English by Michael H. Kohn
Published Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1999

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Description xvi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Sri Lanka studies ; 6
Sri Lanka studies in the humanities and the social sciences ; 6
Contents I. Introduction: The Tovil in the Gourd -- II. Systems of Healing in Sri Lanka -- III. Meetings with Healers -- IV. A Culture-Specific Psychology -- V. The Healing Ritual as Psychotherapy -- VI. The Cultural Context of the Tovil Healing Ritual -- VII. The Controversy over the Buddhist Context of the Healing Rituals -- VIII. The Tovil in the Kandy Highlands -- IX. Examples of Treatment by Tovil -- X. The Skill of Upasena Gurunnanse -- XI. The Ethic of Upasena Gurunnanse -- App. Interview with Upasena Gurunnanse
Summary Tovil is an indigenous healing ritual among the Sinfiala of Sri Lanka. It is a treatment for mental illness. During the ritual, which takes place at night, the patient embodies the demons who are the cause of his or her psychic problems. The ritual is a psychodrama, accompanied and induced by drumming, dancing and singing. The emphasis of this study is not on the patient but on the healer
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-338) and index
Notes Summaries in Sinhala and Tamil
Subject Mental illness -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy.
Psychotherapy -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy.
Rites and ceremonies -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy.
Traditional medicine -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy.
Medicine, Traditional.
Mental illness
Psychotherapy.
SUBJECT Kandy (Sri Lanka) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84018927 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Author Chödzin, Sherab.
LC no. 99938113
ISBN 9053835903