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Giulio Ongaro
@giulio-ongaro.bsky.social
Ethnopsychiatry, shamanism & placebo effects

Assistant Prof Anthropology @HKUST | Based around 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🇱🇦
Here's an essay I wrote on 'voodoo death' that was shortlisted for the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition.

giulioongaro.substack.com/p/conscious-...

Congrats to winners @anilseth.bsky.social, Xin Huang, and Xiaoben Liu!
Conscious Life and Voodoo Death
An essay shortlisted for the 2025 Berggruen Prize essay competition, “on the theme of consciousness, intelligence, and the nature of mind in an age of advancing artificial systems”
giulioongaro.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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January 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In this guest post I write about shamanism as a form of externalist psychiatry. Follows up on a recent trio of papers +commentaries I published in Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology. Feedback welcome!
The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create

Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create
Giulio Ongaro explores what this means for our approach to mental healthcare in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Reposted by Giulio Ongaro
The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create

Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create
Giulio Ongaro explores what this means for our approach to mental healthcare in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Reposted by Giulio Ongaro
Makes me think of Zhou Enlai.
December 11, 2024 at 2:01 PM