The Dark Night of the Soul: CauseS and Resolution of Emotional Distress Among Contemplative Nuns

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 548-570

  Durà Vilà, Glòria ^a   Dein, Simon ^b   Littlewood, Roland ^b   Leavey, Gerard ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health and University College London ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Christian monasticism; coping; ethnography; psychiatry; religion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRISTIAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ETHNOGRAPHY; INTERVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; RELIGION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; CATHOLICISM; CLERGY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALING; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SPIRITUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958007188     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461510374899     Document Type: Article

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