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Spell is a trance state in which individuals "communicate" with deceased relatives or with spirits. At times this is associated with brief periods of personality change. Spells are not considered medical events in the folk tradition, but may be misconstrued as psychotic episodes in a clinical setting.

Overview

"Spell is a trance state found among African Americans and European Americans in the Southern United States. These groups do not consider this state to be pathological.

Symptoms

People with the Culture Bound syndrome spell:

• 1 Communicate with deceased relatives.
• 2 Communicate with spirits.
• 3 May show distinct personality changes.

Case Studies

Most cases are found in the Southern United States among African Americans and European Americans." At times this is associated with brief periods of personality change."

Culture Bound Syndrome

Spell is a Culture-Bound Syndrome Southern U.S. trance state in which individuals "communicate" with deceased relatives or with spirits. At times this is associated with brief periods of personality change. Spells are not considered medical events in the folk tradition, but may be misconstrued as psychotic episodes in a clinical setting.

References

Spell Culture-Bound Syndrome. Glossary of Culture-Bound Syndromes. 18 October 2011 [1]

Health 24 15 March 2004, from Health 24, Trance and possession states, Extract from Psychology: An Introduction for Students in Southern Africa by Louw, DA and Edwards, DJA (1997) Heinemann: Johannesburg, Spell[2]

Culture-bound psychotic disorders, possession states, emergency cross-cultural current modern psychiatric assessment, and the future of current modern cultural psychiatry: a global perspective, 4 November 2009, from Dr. Andrew Maclean Pagon MD, Spell[3]

Primary Psychiatry: Multicultural Aspects of Mental Health, Dr. Manuel Trujillo, MD, Spell, [4]

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition: Spell, By American Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Pub, 2000,[5]

Glasgow Steps, Mental health in different cultures, 2012, This information comes from a University of California at San Diego website. Spell [6]

Medical Dictionary, The Free Dictionary, Spell, 2002, by The McGraw-Hill Companies. [7]

Tripod, Culture Bound Syndromes, Spell, information is from the DSM-IV. [8]