Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatry

by Hugelet, Philippe; Koenig, Harold George

• ISBN13: 9781107405868
• ISBN10: 1107405866
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-26
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Although medicine is practiced in a secular setting, religious and spiritual issues have an impact on patient perspectives regarding their health and the management of any disorders that may afflict them. This is especially true in psychiatry, as feelings of spirituality and religiousness are very prevalent among the mentally ill. Clinicians are rarely aware of the importance of religion and understand little of its value as a mediating force for coping with mental illness. This monograph addresses various issues concerning mental illness in psychiatry: the relation of religious issues to mental health; the tension between a theoretical approach to problems and psychiatric approaches; the importance of addressing these varying approaches in patient care and how to do so; and differing ways to approach Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist patients. This is the first book to specifically cover the impact of religion and spirituality on mental illness.

Table of Contents

Introduction, key concepts

Historical considerations

Theological perspective on the care for patients with psychiatric disorders

The Bible: relevant issues for clinicians

Religion and spirituality and neuropsychiatry

Religion and spirituality and psychosis

Hallucinations and delusions with religious content

Religion and spirituality and mood disorders

Religion and spirituality and substance abuse

Religion and spirituality and anxiety disorders

Religion and spirituality and dissociative disorders

Self-identity and religion and spirituality

Personality disorders

Liaison psychiatry

Community psychiatry and religion

Religious and spiritual assessment in clinical practice

Therapeutic issues

Religion and spirituality and mental illness treatments

Psychiatric treatments involving religion: Christian psychotherapy

Psychiatric treatments involving religion: psychotherapy in an Islamic perspective

Psychiatric treatments involving religion: psychiatric care with Buddhist principles

Teaching religious and spiritual issues to residents in psychiatry and psychology

Conclusion - summary of what clinicians need to know

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