TY  - BOOK
AU  - Loewenthal,Kate Miriam
TI  - Religion, culture and mental health
SN  - 9780511490125 (ebook)
AV  - BL65.M45 L64 2007
U1  - 201/.7622 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion and culture
KW  - Psychology and religion
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490125
ER  -