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Sommario
Table of Contents
Dedication
List of Contributors
Preface for the Classic Edition
Part I Introduction and History
Chapter 1 Religion and Mental Heath
Dinesh Bhugra
Chapter 2 Religion and Psychiatry: Extending the Limits of Tolerance
K.W.M. Fulford
Chapter 3 Religion and Madness in History
Maurice Lipsedge
Part II Religions: East and West
Chapter 4 Christianity and Psychiatry
John Foskett
Chapter 5 ‘The Cracked Crucible’: Judaism and Mental Health
Howard Cooper
Chapter 6 Psychosocial Factors and the Genesis of New African-American Religious Groups
Ezra E.H. Griffith & Khalipha M. Bility
Chapter 7 Hinduism and Ayurveda: Implications for Managing Mental Health
Dinesh Bhugra
Chapter 8 Buddhist Psychology and Implications for Treatment
Padmal de Silva
Chapter 9 New Religions and Mental Health
Eileen Barker
Chapter 10 Islamic Communities and Mental Health
Aziz Esmail
Part III Psychopathology, Psychiatry and Religion
Chapter 11 Psychiatry and Religion: A General Psychiatrist’s Perspective
John L. Cox
Chapter 12 The Neurophysiology of Religious Experience
Peter Fenwick
Chapter 13 Psychopathology, Emobodiment and Religious Innovation: An Historical Instance
Roland Littlewood
Chapter 14 Guilt, Religion and Ritual
Tony Nayani & Dinesh Bhugra
Chapter 15 Mental Illness or Life Crisis? A Christian Pastoral Counselling Contribution
Mark Sutherland
Chapter 16 Conclusions: Religion, Mental Illness and Mental Health - The Way Forward
Dinesh Bhugra
Index
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Dinesh Bhugra is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the IoPPN, King's College London. He is Past-President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008–2011) and the World Psychiatric Association (2014–2017). He is President of the British Medical Association (2018–2019).
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Psychiatry and Religion: Context, Consensus and Controversies works to eradicate the distinction between spiritual and psychological welfare and promote greater understanding of the relationship between the two.
