Csordas T J
Soc Sci Med. 1987;24(1):1-11. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(87)90133-x.
The difficulty of reconciling religious and medical dimensions of ethnopsychiatric phenomena is discussed with respect to spirit possession cults. The paper documents a trend toward medicalization of the phenomenon in the Anglo-American literature, and points out the lack of such a trend in the French literature. Extended discussion is presented of the Afro-Brazilian candomblé, a cult not well represented in the Anglo-American literature. Case vignettes are excerpted from key informant interviews with a Brazilian psychiatrist who is also an initiated elder of the candomblé. It is concluded that a balanced approach that attends to both religious and medical motives of cult participants is essential for an adequate understanding of the phenomenon, and that such an approach is intrinsic to the goals of contemporary medical anthropology.
本文结合附身崇拜探讨了协调民族精神病学现象中宗教与医学层面的困难。该论文记录了英美文献中该现象医学化的趋势，并指出法国文献中缺乏这一趋势。文章对非洲裔巴西人的康东布莱教进行了深入讨论，该教派在英美文献中鲜有提及。案例片段摘自对一位巴西精神病医生的关键 informant 访谈，这位医生也是康东布莱教的资深成员。结论是，兼顾教派参与者宗教和医学动机的平衡方法对于充分理解该现象至关重要，而这种方法是当代医学人类学目标的内在要求。 （注：“informant”常见释义为“提供信息者”，这里结合语境推测为关键访谈对象之类的意思，但中文中可能没有完全对应的简洁词汇，暂保留英文，供你参考，具体翻译可根据实际情况调整。）
