Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : key concepts / Philippe Huguelet and Harold G. Koenig -- Spirituality and the care of madness : historical considerations / Samuel B. Thielman -- Theological perspectives on the care of patients with psychiatric disorders / Joel James Shuman -- The Bible : relevant issues for clinicians / Armando R. Favazza -- Religion/spirituality and neuropsychiatry / Nader Perroud -- Religion/spirituality and psychosis / Philippe Huguelet and Sylvia Mohr -- Delusions and hallucinations with religious content / Sylvia Mohr and Samuel Pfeifer -- Religion/spirituality and mood disorders / Arjan W. Braam -- Spirituality and substance use disorders / Alyssa A. Forcehimes and J. Scott Tonigan -- Religion, spirituality, and anxiety disorders / Harold G. Koenig -- Religion/spirituality and dissociative disorders / Pierre-Yves Brandt and Laurence Borras -- Self-identity and religion/spirituality / Pierre-Yves Brandt, Claude-Alexandre Fournier, and Sylvia Mohr -- Personality, spirituality, religiousness, and the personality disorders : predictive relations and treatment implications / Ralph L. Piedmont -- Religion, spirituality, and consultation-liaison psychiatry / Harold G. Koenig -- Community psychiatry and religion / Marcus M. McKinney -- Religious and spiritual assessment in clinical practice / Sylvia Mohr and Philippe Huguelet -- Integrating spiritual issues into therapy / René Hefti -- Explanatory models of mental illness and its treatment / Laurence Borras and Philippe Huguelet -- Psychiatric treatments involving religion : psychotherapy from a Christian perspective / William P. Wilson -- Psychiatric treatments involving religion : psychotherapy from an Islamic perspective / Asan Vasegh -- Psychiatric treatments involving religion : psychiatric care using Buddhist principles / Charles Knapp -- Teaching religious and spiritual issues / Elisabeth S. Bowman -- Conclusion : summary of what clinicians need to know / Philippe Huguelet and Harold G. Koenig.

Although medicine is practised in a secular setting, religious and spiritual issues have an impact on patient perspectives regarding their health and the management of any disorders that may afflict them. This is especially true in psychiatry, as feelings of spirituality and religiousness are very prevalent among the mentally ill. Clinicians are rarely aware of the importance of religion and understand little of its value as a mediating force for coping with mental illness. This book addresses various issues concerning mental illness in psychiatry: the relation of religious issues to mental health; the tension between a theoretical approach to problems and psychiatric approaches; the importance of addressing these varying approaches in patient care and how to do so; and differing ways to approach Christian, Muslim and Buddhist patients.