Religion and Psychiatry: Beyond Boundaries

Religion and Psychiatry: Beyond Boundaries
ISBN: 978-0-470-69471-8 December 2009 680 Pages
Description
Religion (and spirituality) is very much alive and shapes the cultural values and aspirations of psychiatrist and patient alike, as does the choice of not identifying with a particular faith. Patients bring their beliefs and convictions into the doctor-patient relationship. The challenge for mental health professionals, whatever their own world view, is to develop and refine their vocabularies such that they truly understand what is communicated to them by their patients. Religion and Psychiatry provides psychiatrists with a framework for this understanding and highlights the importance of religion and spirituality in mental well-being.This book aims to inform and explain, as well as to be thought provoking and even controversial. Patiently and thoroughly, the authors consider why and how, when and where religion (and spirituality) are at stake in the life of psychiatric patients. The interface between psychiatry and religion is explored at different levels, varying from daily clinical practice to conceptual fieldwork. The book covers phenomenology, epidemiology, research data, explanatory models and theories. It also reviews the development of DSM V and its awareness of the importance of religion and spirituality in mental health.
What can religious traditions learn from each other to assist the patient? Religion and Psychiatry discusses this, as well as the neurological basis of religious experiences. It describes training programmes that successfully incorporate aspects of religion and demonstrates how different religious and spiritual traditions can be brought together to improve psychiatric training and daily practice.
- Describes the relationship of the main world religions with psychiatry
- Considers training, policy and service delivery
- Provides powerful support for more effective partnerships between psychiatry and religion in day to day clinical care
This is the first time that so many psychiatrists, psychologists and theologians from all parts of the world and from so many different religious and spiritual backgrounds have worked together to produce a book like this one. In that sense, it truly is a World Psychiatric Association publication.
Religion and Psychiatry is recommended reading for residents in psychiatry, postgraduates in theology, psychology and psychology of religion, researchers in psychiatric epidemiology and trans-cultural psychiatry, as well as professionals in theology, psychiatry and psychology of religion
Foreword
Preface
General Introduction: Religion and Science
Peter J. Verhagen
PART 1 PROLEGOMENA (FIRST ISSUES): HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND CULTURE
Introduction
1.1 Evil in Historical Perspective: At the Intersection of Religion and Psychiatry
Michael H. Stone
1.2 Linguistic Analysis and Values-Based Practice: One Way of Getting Started with Some Kinds of Philosophical Problems at the Interface Between Psychiatry and Religion
Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford
1.3 Science and Transcendence in Psychopathology; Lessons from Existentialism
Juan J. López-Ibor Jr. & María Inés López-Ibor Alcocer
1.4 Psychiatry of the Whole Person – Contribution of Spirituality in form of Mystic (Sufi) Thinking
Ahmad Mohit
PART 2 MAIN ISSUES: THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PSYCHIATRY, MENTAL HEALTH AND MAJOR RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
Introduction 87
2.1 Judaism and Psychiatry
Ayala Uri, Noa Navot & Alan Apter
2.2 Christianity and Psychiatry
John R. Peteet
2.3 Religion and Mental Health in Islam
Ahmed Okasha
2.4 Psychiatry and African Religion
Frank G. Njenga, Anna Nguithi & Sam G. Gatere
2.5 Hinduism and Mental Health
R. Srinivasa Murthy
2.6 Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Japan
Naotaka Shinfuku & Kenji Kitanishi
2.7 Psychiatry and Theravada Buddhism
Pichet Udomratn
PART 3 CORE ISSUES: RELIGION AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Introduction 209
3.1 Religious Experience and Psychopathology
Juan J. López-Ibor Jr. & María Inés López-Ibor Alcocer
3.2 God’s Champions and Adversaries: About the Borders between Normal and Abnormal Religiosity
Herman M. van Praag
3.3 Religion and Psychopathology: Psychosis and Depression
Andrew C. P. Sims
3.4 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Religion: A Reconnaissance
Harold J. G. M. van Megen, Dianne A. den Boer-Wolters & Peter J. Verhagen
3.5 Religion and Psychoanalysis: Past and Present
Allan M. Josephson, Armand Nicholi Jr. & Allan Tasman
3.6 On the Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism
John, Lord Alderdice
3.7 Measurement at the Interface of Psychiatry and Religion:
Issues and Existing Measures
Peter C. Hill & Carissa Dwiwardani
PART 4 RESEARCH ISSUES
Introduction
4.1 Religion and Mental Health: What Do You Mean When You Say ‘Religion’? What Do You Mean When You Say ‘Mental Health’?
Charles H. Hackney
4.2 A Moment of Anger, a Lifetime of Favor: Image of God, Personality, and Orthodox Religiosity
Elisabeth H.M. Eurelings-Bontekoe & Hanneke Schaap-Jonker
4.3 The Relationship Between an Orthodox Protestant Upbringing and Current Orthodox Protestant Adherence, DSM-IV Axis II B Cluster Personality Disorders and Structural Borderline Personality Organization
Elisabeth H.M. Eurelings-Bontekoe & Patrick Luyten
4.4 When Religion Goes Awry: Religious Risk Factors for Poorer Health and Well-Being
Hisham Abu Raiya, Kenneth I. Pargament & Gina Magyar-Russell
4.5 Religious Practice and Mental Health: a Moroccan Experience
Driss Moussaoui & Nadia Kadri
4.6 Religious and Spiritual Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis: Considerations for the DSM-V
David Lukoff, C. Robert Cloninger, Marc Galanter, David M. Gellerman, Linda Glickman, Harold G. Koenig, Francis G. Lu, William E. Narrow, John R. Peteet, Samuel B. Thielman & C. Paul Yang
PART 5 INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUES: PSYCHOTHERAPY, PASTORAL CARE AND MEANING GIVING
Introduction
5.1 Gods of the Horizon: The Therapist’s and the Patient’s Religious Representations and the Inevitability of Countertransference
Moshe Halevi Spero
5.2 Assumptions About Pastoral Care, Spirituality and Mental Health
Peter J. Verhagen & Adamantios G. Avgoustidis
5.3 Coming to Terms with Loss in Schizophrenia – The Search for Meaning
Hanneke (J.K.) Muthert
PART 6 CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES: RELIGION AND THE BRAIN
Introduction
6.1 The Limits of Scientific Understanding and their Relevance for the Role of Religion in Psychiatry
Robert H. Belmaker
6.2 Seat of the Divine: A Biological ‘Proof of God’s Existence’?
Herman M. van Praag
6.3 Neuro-Theology: Demasqué of Religions
Dick F. Swaab & Wilma T.P. Verweij
PART 7 TRAINING ISSUES: RESIDENCY TRAINING AND CONTINUOUS EDUCATION
Introduction
7.1 Religion and the Training of Psychotherapists
Allan M. Josephson, John R. Peteet & Allan Tasman
7.2 Multicultural Education and Training in Religion and Spirituality
Peter J. Verhagen & John L. Cox
Epilogue: Proposal for a World Psychiatric Association Consensus or Position Statement on Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry
Peter J. Verhagen & Christopher C.H. Cook
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
""All in all: very readable, a large amount of material brought together in a single volume, a milestone marking the beginning of a new, less ideological and less conflict-ridden era in the history of psychiatry and religion."" (Dutch Theological Journal, 2010)
""offers an outstanding collection of chapters dealing with mental health and religion. Its editors, Peter J. Verhagen, Herman M. van Praag, Juan J. Lopez-Ibor Jr., John L. Cox., and Driss Moussaoui, have assembled a great variety of chapters dealing with topics that are of great interest to psychologists studying religion."" (www.psyrel.com)