Rebecca Seligman

Summary

Affiliation: Northwestern University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Dissociative experience and cultural neuroscience: narrative, metaphor and mechanism
    Rebecca Seligman
    Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
    Cult Med Psychiatry 32:31-64. 2008
  2. ncbi Theory and method at the intersection of anthropology and cultural neuroscience
    Rebecca Seligman
    Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
    Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:130-7. 2010
  3. ncbi From affliction to affirmation: narrative transformation and the therapeutics of Candomblé mediumship
    Rebecca Seligman
    Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Transcult Psychiatry 42:272-94. 2005
  4. ncbi Shopping for explanations
    Elizabeth M Brumfiel
    Science 318:745. 2007

Collaborators

  • L J Kirmayer
  • Elizabeth M Brumfiel
  • Helen B Schwartzman
  • Micaela di Leonardo
  • Thom McDade
  • Katherine E Hoffman
  • Christopher W Kuzawa

Detail Information

Publications4

  1. ncbi Dissociative experience and cultural neuroscience: narrative, metaphor and mechanism
    Rebecca Seligman
    Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
    Cult Med Psychiatry 32:31-64. 2008
    ..This integrative model, grounded in a cultural neuroscience, can advance ethnographic studies of dissociation and inform clinical approaches to dissociation through careful consideration of the impact of social context...
  2. ncbi Theory and method at the intersection of anthropology and cultural neuroscience
    Rebecca Seligman
    Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
    Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:130-7. 2010
    ..We illustrate the potential of such an approach with data from a study of psychophysiology and religious devotion in Northeastern Brazil...
  3. ncbi From affliction to affirmation: narrative transformation and the therapeutics of Candomblé mediumship
    Rebecca Seligman
    Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Transcult Psychiatry 42:272-94. 2005
    ..This article also demonstrates how the social articulation and cognitive internalization of this new self-narrative act therapeutically, to foster a positive transformation in self-understanding that facilitates positive behavior...
  4. ncbi Shopping for explanations
    Elizabeth M Brumfiel
    Science 318:745. 2007