Christianity and Psychiatry
John R. Peteet · H. Steven Moffic · Ahmed Hankir · Harold G. Koenig
Sept 2021 · Springer Nature
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311
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This book aims to help readers appreciate the many-faceted relationship between Christianity, one of the world’s major faith traditions, and the practice of psychiatry. Chapter authors in this book first consider challenges posed by historical antagonisms, church-based mental health stigma, and controversy over phenomena such as hearing voices. Next, others explore both how Christians often experience conditions such as mood and psychotic disorders, disorders in children and adolescents, moral injury and PTSD, and ways that their faith can serve as a resource in their healing. Twelve Step spirituality, originally informed by Christianity, is the subject of a chapter, as are issues raised for Christians by disability, death and dying. A set of chapters then focuses on the state of integration of Christian beliefs and practices into psychotherapy, treatment delivery, educational programming, clergy/clinician collaboration, and treatment by a non-Christian psychiatrist. Finally, there are chapters by a mental health professional who has been a patient, a Jewish psychiatrist, a Muslim psychiatrist knowledgeable about Christianity and psychiatry in the Muslim majority world, and a Christian psychiatrist. These chapters provide context, diversity and personal perspectives.
Christianity and Psychiatry is a valuable resource for mental health professionals seeking to understand and address the particular challenges that arise when caring for Christian patients.
About the author
John R. Peteet, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
USA
H. Steven Moffic, M.D.
Private Practice of Pro Bono Community Psychiatry
Milwaukee, WIUSA
Ahmed Hankir MBChB MRCPsych
Academic Clinical Fellow in General Adult Psychiatry
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
King’s College, London
UK
Harold G. Koenig, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
USA
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