Talk:Ghost Sickness
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Ghost Sickness includes hearing voices. This indicates a mental break is involved. The believed cause of this event is too-close contact with the dead. The same beliefs and mental events are said to happen to other tribes. Each group has a different name for the event.
VisionAndPsychosis.Net suggests that visual Subliminal Distraction is the cause of this and other Culture Bound Syndromes.
Habituation to extinction of movement in peripheral vision, which allows Subliminal Distraction, to happen can be demonstrated...
http://visionandpsychosis.net/a_demonstration_you_can_do.htm
Too-small single-room living arrangements create the opportunity for Subliminal Distraction....
http://visionandpsychosis.net/Culture_Bound_Syndromes.htm L K Tucker 74.224.31.26 06:30, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
