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 obsess...

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Main Author: Loewenthal, Kate Miriam 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490125
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490125
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490125
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490125
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
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 169 pages)
ISBN:9780511490125
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511490125