Delusions with religious content in patients with psychosis: How they interact with spiritual coping

Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 158-172

  Mohr, Sylvia ^a   Borras, Laurence ^a   Betrisey, Carine ^a   Pierre Yves, Brandt ^b   Gilliéron, Christiane ^c   Huguelet, Philippe ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DELUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRANDIOSE DELUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSECUTORY DELUSION; POSITIVE SYNDROME; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM SAMPLE; RELIGION; SPIRITUAL CARE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DELUSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77953839851     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2010.73.2.158     Document Type: Article

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