Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatry

by Philippe Huguelet and Harold G. Koenig

Book Overview

Although medicine is practiced 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521889529
• ISBN13: 9780521889520
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.1"