Cultural Rituals and Obsessive‐Compulsive Disorder: Is There a Common Psychological Mechanism?
- 1 September 1994
- Vol. 22 (3) , 243-283
- https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.1994.22.3.02a00010
Abstract
Our species has distinctive features, genetically inherited, which interact with social conditioning……One of these distinctive human features may be a propensity to the ritualisation of certain of our behaviours.[Turner 1985a:249]Keywords
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