Spirituality and the mental health professions

Spirituality and mental health.

How is spirituality relevant to mental health and to the busy practice of medicine? Until recently, a supplement devoted to this question wouid have been highly improbable— owing in part to Sigmund Freud's antireligious bias and to the subsequent focus of American psychiatry on the biologic aspects of mental illness. Consider briefly what has changed: Palliative medicine, which has long valued ...

Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health

Until the early 19th century, psychiatry and religion were closely connected. Religious institutions were responsible for the care of the mentally ill. A major change occurred when Charcot1 and his pupil Freud2 associated religion with hysteria and neurosis. This created a divide between religion and mental health care, which has continued until recently. Psychiatry has a long tradition of dism...

Spirituality, Science and Mental Health

My dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I consider it a great privilege and pleasure to address you this morning as the next President of Indian Psychiatric Society. I am most grateful to the fellowship of the society for bestowing their trust and confidence in me and having elected me to the highest position in the profession at the national level, wihch had been a cherished dream for me. I ...

Research on Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health

Homosexuality and the mental health professions. The impact of bias.

What do you do to start reading homosexuality and the mental health professions the impact of bias? Searching the book that you love to read first or find an interesting book that will make you want to read? Everybody has difference with their reason of reading a book. Actuary, reading habit must be from earlier. Many people may be love to read, but not a book. It's not fault. Someone will be b...