Why a Sufi approach to healing mental illness is so powerful
In Sufi shrines, rituals offer sufferers a path beyond the fear and isolation of their mental distress
by Bhrigupati Singh
Bhrigupati Singh is an associate professor of anthropology and sociology at Ashoka University in India, visiting associate professor of psychiatry at Brown University and a research fellow at the Carney Institute for Brain Science, both in Rhode Island, US. His books include Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India (2015) and, as co-editor, The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy (2014).
Written by Bhrigupati Singh