Mediumistic trance and medical standards at the Rio de Janeiro's Medical School in the first half of the twentieth century: the perspective of Xavier de Oliveira
This text analyses the view of a Brazilian psychiatrist, from Ceará, on spiritism and mediumist trance: Antônio Xavier de Oliveira (1892-1953). Spiritism is shown in his work as an unchaining “locus” of the mental disease, and spiritists as irremediably crazy or possibly mentally ill. Xavier de Oliv...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Esboços |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/esbocos/article/view/14754 |