Judeo-Christian Religious Experience and Psychopathology: ThE Legacy of William James

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 523-547

  Dein, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; conversion; dissociation; mysticism; religious experience

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CHRISTIAN; CONFUSION; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; MYSTICISM; PSYCHOSIS; RELIGION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPIRITUAL HEALING; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHRISTIANITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EGO; HUMANS; JUDAISM; LITERATURE, MODERN; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALING; MYSTICISM; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SPIRITUALITY; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77957989056     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461510377568     Document Type: Article

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