Religious doubts: Implications for psychopathology and psychotherapy

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 201-221

  Dein, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRISTIAN; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS GROUP;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIBLE; CHRISTIANITY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84884948408     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: 19432828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.2013.77.3.201     Document Type: Article

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