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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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Some questions. Definitions of culture, religion and mental health. How does culture affect the relations between religion and mental health?
- Schizophrenia. Definitions and symptoms, and an overview of causes and relations with religion. Visions, voices, delusions and schizophrenia. Spirit possession, demons. Afro-Caribbean schizophrenia? Diagnostic issues
- Manic disorder. Definitions and causes of manic disorder. Religious factors and manic disorders
- Depression. Definitions, symptoms, causes and relations with religion. Religious coping beliefs. Some gender issues : women, religion and depression
- Anxiety. Definitions, symptoms and causes. The overall anxiety-lowering and anxiety-heightening effects of religion. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and religion. Are religious people seen as more anxious?
- Somatisation. Definitions, symptoms and causes. Between-group variations in somatic and psychological symptoms. Explanations of these variations
- Dissociation. Definitions and causes of dissociation and dissociative personality disorder. Religious factors in relation to dissociative states and tendencies. Religious factors in relation to dissociative personality disorder. Religious possession and trance states : are they dissociative?
- Positive states. Religion and positive mood : definitions and associations. Purpose in life, and hope. Forgiveness. Authentic happiness
- Conclusion.
