Religion, Culture and Mental HealthCambridge University Press, 2006 M12 21 Are religious practices involving seeing visions and speaking in tongues beneficial or detrimental to mental health? Do some cultures express distress in bodily form because they lack the linguistic categories to express distress psychologically? Do some religions encourage clinical levels of obsessional behaviour? And are religious people happier than others? By merging the growing information on religion and mental health with that on culture and mental health, Kate Loewenthal enables fresh perspectives on these questions. This book deals with different psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, manic disorders, depression, anxiety, somatisation and dissociation as well as positive states of mind, and analyses the religious and cultural influences on each. |
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Afro-Caribbean anxiety anxiety disorders associated beliefs and behaviours bipolar disorders causal cause chapter Christian clinical culture culture-specific culture-specific syndrome demons depression described diagnosis dissociative disorders dissociative personality disorder DSM-IV dybbuk effects encouraged episodes evidence example experiences Eysenck feel forgiveness functioning gender differences gious glossolalia Greenberg & Witztum guilt hallucinations happiness higher Hinton idioms of distress important interviewed involving leukorrhea Littlewood & Lipsedge Loewenthal manic measures monomania mood Muslim negative neurosis neuroticism obsessional pain Pargament pathological patients personality disorder positive prayer prevalence problems psychiatric illness psychiatrist psychological psychopathology psychotic question relations between religion relationship religious activity religious behaviour religious beliefs religious coping beliefs religious factors religious groups religious traditions reported rituals role sample schizophrenia seen Seligman shame Sleep paralysis somatic disorders somatic symptoms somatisation somatoform disorders sometimes spirit possession spiritual forces stress suffering syndrome thought tion trance trauma treatment visions well-being women
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Página 4 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 106 - ... presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states (each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self) B.
Página 26 - I lay awake awhile thinking on the previous night's experience, when suddenly I felt something come into the room and stay close to my bed. It remained only a minute or two. I did not recognize it by any ordinary sense, and yet there was a horribly unpleasant 'sensation
Página 51 - The jerks consisted in violent twitches and contortions of the body in all its parts . . . When attacked by the jerks, the victims of enthusiasm sometimes leapt like frogs, and exhibited every grotesque and hideous contortion of the face and limbs. The barks consisted in getting down on all fours, growling, snapping the teeth and barking like dogs. Sometimes numbers of the people squatted down, and looking in the face of the minister, continued demurely barking at him while he preached to them. These...
Página 26 - ... yet the feeling was not pain so much as abhorrence. At all events, something was present with me, and I knew its presence far more surely than I have ever known the presence of any fleshly living creature. I was conscious of its departure as of its coming: an almost instantaneously swift going through the door, and the 'horrible sensation
Página 51 - turn to the Lord;' some struck with terror, and hastening to escape; others trembling, weeping, and swooning away, till every appearance of life was gone, and the extremities of the body assumed the coldness of a corpse. At one meeting not less than a thousand persons fell to the ground, apparently without sense or motion. It was common to see them shed tears plentifully about an hour before they fell. They were then seized with a general tremor, and sometimes they uttered one or two piercing shrieks...
Página 51 - rolling exercise" consisted in doubling the head and feet together, and rolling over and over like a hoop ; or in stretching the body horizontally, and rolling through mud and mire like swine. The "jerks" consisted in violent twitches and contortions of the body in all its parts.
Página 12 - DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for the other psychotic disorders, including schizophreniform disorder, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, brief psychotic disorder, shared psychotic disorder, psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition, substance-induced psychotic disorder, and psychotic disorder not otherwise specified, are discussed below under "Differential Diagnosis.
Página 52 - I dreamed, that one stood by me with a bow and sheaf of arrows, and he shot one through the minster door. I said I wanted to try to shoot, and he presented me the bow. I took an arrow from the sheaf, and shot, but the arrow hit the flags, and I lost it. I also dreamed that a large thick cloud came down over the minster, and extended to my lodgings; and from these things I thought that I was to set fire to the minster.
Página 6 - a system of attitudes, practices, rites, ceremonies, and beliefs by means of which individuals or a community put themselves in relation to God or to a supernatural world and often to each other, and from which the religious person derives a set of values by which to judge events in the natural world.
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Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred Kenneth I. Pargament Vista previa limitada - 2011 |