Hyperreligiosity in psychotic disorders

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 302-304

  Brewerton, Timothy D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MANIA; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; PSYCHOSIS; RELIGION; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DELUSIONS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RELIGION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SUPERSTITIONS;

EID: 0028238715     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199405000-00009     Document Type: Article

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