Religion, spirituality, and psychosis

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 174-179

  Menezes Jr , Adair ^a   Moreira Almeida, Alexander ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Hallucination; Psychosis; Religion; Spiritual problems; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELUSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMOTIONALITY; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PARANOIA; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; REVIEW; SELF TRANSCENDENCE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 77955284060     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-010-0117-7     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. Koenig HG, McCullough M, Larson DB: Handbook of Religion and Health: A Century of Research Reviewed. New York: Oxford University Press; 2001.
2. Moreira-Almeida A, Neto FL, Koenig HG: Religiousness and mental health: A review. Rev Bras Psiquiatr 2006, 28:242-250.
3. American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, edn 4. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1994.
4. Van Os J, Kapur S: Schizophrenia. Lancet 2009, 374:635-645.
5. Lukoff D, Lu F, Turner R: Toward a more culturally sensitive DSM-IV: Psychoreligious and psychospiritual problems. J Nerv Ment Dis 1992, 180:673-682.
6. Lukoff D, Lu F, Turner R: Cultural considerations in the assessment and treatment of religious and spiritual problems. Psychiatr Clin North Am 1995, 18:467-485.
7. Grof S, Grof C: The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth Through Transformational Crisis. Los Angeles, CA: Jeremy P. Tarcher; 1989.
8. Yung AR, Phillips LJ, McGorry PD, et al.: Prediction of psychosis: A step towards indicated prevention of schizophrenia. Br J Psychiatry 1998, 172(Suppl 33):14-20.
9. McGlashan TH, Addington J, Cannon T, et al.: Recruitment and treatment practices for help-seeking "prodromal" patients. Schizophr Bull 2007, 33:715-726.
10. Cannon TD, Cadenhead MD, Cornblatt B, et al.: Prediction of psychosis in youth at clinical risk. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2008, 65:28-37.
11. Sidgewick H: Report on the census of hallucinations. Proc Soc Psychical Res 1894, 10:25-252.
12. West DJ: A mass observation questionnaire on hallucinations. J Soc Psychical Res 1948, 34:187-196.
13. Tien AY: Distribution of hallucinations in the population. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 1991, 26:287-292.
14. Ohayon MM: Prevalence of hallucinations and their pathological associations in the general population. Psychiatr Res 2000, 97:153-164.
15. Preti A, Bonventre E, Ledda V, et al.: Hallucinatory experiences, delusional thought proneness, and psychological distress in a nonclinical population. J Nerv Ment Dis 2007, 195:484-491.
16. Romme M, Escher A: Hearing voices. Schizophr Bull 1989, 15:209-216.
17. Miller LJ, O'Connor E, DiPasquale T: Patients attitudes toward hallucinations. Am J Psychiatry 1993, 150:584-588.
18. van Os J, Linscott RJ, Myin-Germeys I, et al.: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the psychosis continuum: Evidence for a psychosis propensity-persistence-impairment model of psychotic disorder. Psychol Med 2009, 39:179- 195. In this study, the authors verify the hypothesis of the existence of a continuum of psychotic symptoms present in patients with psychotic disorders and also in the nonclinical population.
19. Moreira-Almeida A, Lotufo Neto F, Greyson B: Dissociative and psychotic experiences in Brazilian spiritist mediums. Psychother Psychosom 2007, 76:57-58. (Published erratum appears in Psychother Psychosom 2007, 76:185.)
20. Moreira-Almeida A, Lotufo Neto F, Cardena E: Comparison of Brazilian spiritist mediumship and dissociative identity disorder. J Nerv Ment Dis 2008, 196:420-424.
21. Dalgalarrondo P: Religião, Psicopatologia e Saúde Mental [in Portuguese]. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Artmed; 2008.
22. Koenig HG: Religion, spirituality and psychiatry: A new era in mental health care. Rev Psiq Clín 2007, 34(Suppl 1):5-7.
23. Farr CB, Howe RL: The influence of religious ideas on the etiology, symptomatology, and prognosis of the psychoses: With special reference to social factors. Am J Psychiatry 1932, 11:845-865.
24. Erinosho OA: Social background and pre-admission sources of care among youruba psychiatric patients. Soc Psychiatry 1977, 12:71-74.
25. Verghese A, John JK, Rajkumar S, et al.: Factors associated with the course and outcome of schizophrenia in India. Br J Psychiatry 1989, 154:499-503.
26. Dantas RC, Pavarin LB, Dalgalarrondo P: Symptoms of religious content in psychiatric patients. Rev Bras Psiq 1999, 21:158-164.
27. Tateyama J, Asai M, Kamisada M, et al.: Comparison of schizophrenic delusions between Japan and Germany. Psychopathology 1993, 26:151-158.
28. Appelbaum PS, Robbins PC, Roth LH: Dimensional approach to delusions: Comparison across types and diagnosis. Am J Psychiatry 1999, 156:1938-1943.
29. Mohr S, Huguelet P: The relationship between schizophrenia and religion and its implications for care. Swiss Med Wkly 2004, 134:369-376.
30. Mohr S, Brandt PY, Borras L, et al.: Toward an integration of spirituality and religiousness into the psychosocial dimension of schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 2006, 163:1952-1959.
31. Mohr S, Rieben I, Betrisey C, et al.: Evolution of spirituality and religiousness in chronic schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders: A 3-years follow-up study. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2009 Oct 11 (Epub ahead of print). This was a prospective study on the relationships between religiousness and outcomes of schizophrenic or schizoaffective patients.
32. Wilson WP: Religion and psychoses. In Handbook of Religion and Mental Health. Edited by Koenig HG. San Diego, CA: Academic Press; 1998:161-173.
33. Koenig HG: Religion, spirituality and psychotic disorders. Rev Psiq Clin 2007, 34(Suppl 1):40-48.
34. Jackson M, Fulford KWM: Spiritual experience and psychopathology. Philos Psychiatr Psychol 1977, 4:41-65.
35. Lukoff D: Visionary spiritual experiences. South Med J 2007, 100:635-641.
36. Hufford DJ: Visionary spiritual experiences and cognitive aspects of spiritual transformation. The Global Spiral 2008, 9. Also available at http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10610/Default.aspx.
37. Menezes A Jr, Moreira-Almeida A: Differential diagnosis between spiritual experiences and mental disorders of religious content. Rev Psiq Clín 2009, 36:75-82. Also available at http:// www.hoje.org.br/elsh. The authors summarize several studies that proposed criteria to make a differential diagnosis between spiritual experiences and mental disorders with a religious basis.