Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatry

This book was the first to specifically address the impact of religion and spirituality on mental illness.

Philippe Huguelet (Author), Harold G. Koenig (Author)

9781107405868, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 July 2012

386 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 2 cm, 0.67 kg

"This important volume on religion and psychiatry, intended specifically for clinicians, has a focus that differentiates it from others on the topic designed for clergy....[A] rich, useful resource. This insightful guide to the clinical significance of religious language and behavior in psychiatric contexts will be valuable for medical students and mental health professionals, along with pastoral counselors and graduate students in theology and psychology."
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Although medicine is practised 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 book 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.

1. Introduction, key concepts Philippe Huguelet and Harold G. Koenig
2. Historical considerations Samuel B. Thielman
3. Theological perspective on the care for patients with psychiatric disorders Joel James Shuman
4. The Bible: relevant issues for clinicians Armando R. Favazza
5. Religion and spirituality and neuropsychiatry Nader Perroud
6. Religion and spirituality and psychosis Philippe Huguelet and Sylvia Mohr
7. Hallucinations and delusions with religious content Sylvia Mohr and Samuel Pfeifer
8. Religion and spirituality and mood disorders Arjan W. Braam
9. Religion and spirituality and substance abuse Alyssa A. Forcehimes and J. Scott Tonigan
10. Religion and spirituality and anxiety disorders Harold G. Koenig
11. Religion and spirituality and dissociative disorders Pierre-Yves Brandt and Laurence Borras
12. Self-identity and religion and spirituality Pierre-Yves Brandt and Sylvia Mohr
13. Personality disorders Ralph L. Piedmont
14. Liaison psychiatry Harold G. Koenig
15. Community psychiatry and religion Marcus M. McKinney
16. Religious and spiritual assessment in clinical practice Sylvia Mohr and Philippe Huguelet
17. Therapeutic issues René Hefti
18. Religion and spirituality and mental illness treatments Laurence Borras and Philippe Huguelet
19. Psychiatric treatments involving religion: Christian psychotherapy William P. Wilson
20. Psychiatric treatments involving religion: psychotherapy in an Islamic perspective Sasan Vasegh
21. Psychiatric treatments involving religion: psychiatric care with Buddhist principles Charles Knapp
22. Teaching religious and spiritual issues to residents in psychiatry and psychology Elisabeth S. Bowman
23. Conclusion - summary of what clinicians need to know Philippe Huguelet and Harold G. Koenig.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Psychiatry [MMH]