Hi! You're looking at an excellent condition book which is VERY RARE and hard to find and an Anthropological and Psychological study of Sprit Possession written by MORTON KLASS--the book is a FIRST EDITION and a softcover copy. This book is in excellent condition and has some wear, fading and peeling of the lamination on the lower edges of the covers, slight peeling of the lamination on the upper spine tip, a couple of very small, light discolored spots on the lower opening page edge, very slight separation of the lamination on the upper left of the back cover and just very light shelfwear and very light evidence of gentle browsing but no other significant imperfections!  The book is titled Mind Over Mind: The Anthroplogy and Psychology of Spirit Possession and it was written by MORTON KLASS; it was published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. in 2003 and is an unstated 1st EDITION copy.

Mind Over Mind explores the phenomenon of spirit possession from both anthropological and psychological perspectives. Spirit possession is ritually important in many cultures from India to Brazil to Madagascar, but has tended to be narrowly regarded from modern American and European perspectives as a psychopathological problem of multiple personality disorder. This book proposes an integration of anthropological and psychological approaches, concluding with a new analytical framework for understanding spirit possession and resolving the controversy surrounding the "reality" of possession. The issues raised are thus essential to both the anthropology of religion and the psychology of altered states of consciousness. At the same time, Mind over Mind confronts the most challenging philosophical issues of human consciousness and human identity, which can not be properly formulated without the insights of social and cultural anthropology. At the most general level, this study argues for the unequivocal importance of an interdisciplinary approach to spirit possession and for the integral significance of anthropology for the other human sciences.

A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this book!