Religion and psychosis: A common evolutionary trajectory?

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 318-335

  Dein, Simon ^a   Littlewood, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; cognition; religious experience; schizophrenia; theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DELUSION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MODEL; PERSECUTORY DELUSION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; RELIGION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL LIFE; THEORY OF MIND; THOUGHT DISORDER;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELUSIONS; HUMANS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 79960754195     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461511402723     Document Type: Article

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