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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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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 |
| Summary: | 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 Oliveira tried to narrow the relationships already estabilished by the medical-psychiatric speech between spiritism and madness. The patients who presented some familiarity with mediumistic trance appear in his work as discredited and deprived of the medical norm. |
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| ISSN: | 1414-722X 2175-7976 |