Spirituality and mental health across cultures

Spirituality and mental health across cultures / edited by Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Bruno Paz Mosqueiro, and Dinesh Bhugra.

This resource provides evidence-based guidance on the implications of religion and spirituality on mental health.

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Other Authors: Almeida, Alexander Moreira de (Editor), Mosqueiro, Bruno Paz (Editor), Bhugra, Dinesh (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First Edition.
Series:Oxford cultural psychiatry series.
Subjects:
Psychotherapy > Religious aspects.
Mental health > Religious aspects.
Spirituality > Health aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Section I Theory
  • Religion, spirituality, and mental health: Setting the scene / Alexander Moreira-Almeida and Dinesh Bhugra
  • Western spirituality: a historical epistemology / German E. Berrios and Ivana S. Marková
  • Conflicts and complexities: Medical science, exceptional experiences, and the perils of simplistic history / Andreas Sommer
  • Can spirituality be a scientific topic and how?: A rigorous but open-minded scientific approach of studies on religion, spirituality and mental health / Harald Walach
  • Differentiating spiritual experiences from mental disorders / Leonardo Machado and Alexander Moreira-Almeida
  • Light and the bulb: The psychology and neurophysiology of mystical experience / Etzel Cardęa and Lena Lindstr̲m
  • Evidence for the influence of religiosity and spirituality on mental health / Giancarlo Lucchetti, Rodolfo Furlan Damiano, Alessandra Lamas Granero Lucchetti, and Mario Fernando Prieto Peres
  • Mechanisms: Religion's Impact on mental health / Harold G. Koenig
  • Sexual minorities and spirituality / Dinesh Bhugra, Cameron Watson, and Susham Gupta
  • Section II General principles of religions and relationship with mental health
  • Christianity and mental health / Alison J. Gray and Christopher C.H. Cook
  • Islam and mental health / Ahmed Okasha and Tarek A. Okasha
  • Hinduism / Matcheri S. Keshavan, Bangalore N. Gangadhar, and Ananda K. Pandurangi
  • Principles and practices of Buddhism in relationship to mental health / Malcolm Huxter and Leandro Pizzuti
  • Judaism / Haim Belmaker, Rael Strous, and Pesach Lichtenberg
  • Non-religion, atheism, and mental health / Miguel Farias and Thomas J. Coleman III
  • African religions, spirituality, and mental health healing practices / Olatunde Ayinde, Akin Ojagbemi, Victor Makanjuola, and Oye Gureje
  • Spiritual but not religious / Bruno Paz Mosqueiro
  • Section III Clinical practice
  • Principles of integrating religion and spirituality in mental health care and the World Psychiatric Association's position statement / Christopher C.H. Cook and Alexander Moreira-Almeida
  • Spiritually and culturally sensitive evidence-based approaches to taking a spiritual history / Larkin Kao and John Peteet
  • Religion and spirituality in prevention and promotion in mental health / Arjan W. Braam
  • Key role of spirituality in positive psychiatry and psychology / Simone Hauck and C. Robert Cloninger
  • Spiritually integrated psychotherapy / Marianna de Abreu Costa and David H. Rosmarin
  • Religious and spiritual struggles and mental health: Implications for clinical practice / Kenneth I. Pargament and Julie J. Exline
  • Spirituality and end-of-life experiences: Meeting the spiritual needs of the dying / Peter Fenwick and Bruno Paz Mosquiero
  • Fruitful collaborations with religious and spiritual communities to foster mental health in general society: An international perspective / Wai Lun Alan Fung, Victor A. Shepherd, King Yee Agatha Chong, Sujatha D. Sharma, and Avdesh Sharma.

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