From Powerlessness to Control: Psychosis, Spirit Possession and Recovery in the Western Desert of Egypt

M. A. Rashed

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M. A. Rashed
Dr Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Psychiatry University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa
South Africa

Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria. He obtained his doctorate in humanities and mental health from University College London and masters in philosophy of mental disorder from King's College London. He qualified as a medical doctor from Cairo University and trained in psychiatry in the UK. Dr Rashed's research interests include concepts of mental disorder and culture, spirit possession, psychosis, and psychiatric ethics.

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2015 Culture and Mental Health (IN PRESS) Psychology: Themes and Variations. Ed. J Hassim. Cengage Publishing

2014 Islamic Perspectives on Psychiatric Ethics. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics. Eds. J Sadler, B Fulford, CW van Staden. Oxford University Press

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2011 Religious Experience & Spirituality in Cultural Psychiatry (2^nd author with S. Dein).

Journal of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry Special Issue 6(1): 1-2

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2015 A Critical Perspective on Second-Order Empathy in Understanding Psychopathology: Phenomenology and Ethics. Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics (IN PRESS)

2015 Can Psychiatry Distinguish Social Deviance from Mental Disorder? Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology (IN PRESS)

2013 Culture, Salience & Psychiatric Diagnosis: Exploring the Concept of Cultural Congruence & its Application. Philosophy, Ethics & Humanities in Medicine 8(5)

2013 Talking Past Each Other: Conceptual Confusion in ‘Culture’ and ‘Psychopathology’. South African Journal of Psychiatry 19(1): 12-15

2013 Psychiatric Judgements across Cultural Contexts: Relativist, Clinical-Ethnographic, & Universalist-Scientific Perspectives. Journal of Medicine & Philosophy 38(2): 128-148

2010 Religious Experience and Psychiatry: Analysis of the Conflict and Proposal for a Way Forward. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 17(3): 185-204

2011 The Egyptian Revolution: A Participant’s Account from Tahrir Square. Anthropology Today 27(2): 22-27.

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