Religion, culture and mental health /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "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."--Publisher's description |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 169 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-163) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511490125 0511490127 9780511260612 051126061X 9780511258060 0511258062 0511259360 9780511259364 0511260016 9780511260018 9780511261183 0511261187 |
