Should psychotherapy consider reincarnation?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 174-179

  Peres, Julio F P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Belief systems; Coping; Psychotherapy; Reincarnation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; ETHICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REINCARNATION; RELIGION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CULTURE; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIGION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84856752386     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182439836     Document Type: Article

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