Indian Journal of Psychiatry Reviews of Meditation and Spiritual Experiences

Record summary

The Indian Journal of Psychiatry has published reviews and case discussions concerning meditation, yoga, spirituality, possession-like experiences and culturally shaped mental states. These materials can help distinguish contemplative absorption, dissociation, psychosis, mania and culturally sanctioned religious experience. They are especially useful as a bridge between psi narratives and clinical interpretation, but the category boundaries are contested. Individual articles differ greatly in evidence quality, and some rely on clinical impressions rather than structured phenomenological assessment.