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Religious resources of psychiatric inpatients

Religious resources of psychiatric inpatients Religious resources of psychiatric inpatients BY J.Z.T PIEPER Abstract In this paper some results of a study among psychiatric patients in a large mental hospital in the Netherlands are presented. We focus on the following issues: - the religious and spiritual beliefs and activities of the inpatients; - both the positive and the negative influence of their religion and their religious coping on their mental problems as well as on their existential well-being. The results are discussed briefly within the theoretical notions of religious coping, adressing the positive influence especially of religious beliefs, relying on God and religious social support in psychological and existential times of crisis. 1. Introduction Already at the birth of the psychology of religion at the end of the 19th century, the relation between religion and mental health was a major topic. James, Hall, Leuba and Starbuck studied questions like: 'Is conversion a sign of pathology or is it on the contrary an attempt to integrate an unstable self?', and 'To what degree are intense religious and mystical experiences connected with mental health or psychopathology?' Well-known, as regards the negative or positive influence of re- ligion on mental health, is the controversy between Freud http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archive for the Psychology of Religion Brill

Religious resources of psychiatric inpatients

Archive for the Psychology of Religion , Volume 25 (1): 142 – Jan 1, 2003

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Brill
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0084-6724
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1573-6121
DOI
10.1163/157361203X00101
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Religious resources of psychiatric inpatients BY J.Z.T PIEPER Abstract In this paper some results of a study among psychiatric patients in a large mental hospital in the Netherlands are presented. We focus on the following issues: - the religious and spiritual beliefs and activities of the inpatients; - both the positive and the negative influence of their religion and their religious coping on their mental problems as well as on their existential well-being. The results are discussed briefly within the theoretical notions of religious coping, adressing the positive influence especially of religious beliefs, relying on God and religious social support in psychological and existential times of crisis. 1. Introduction Already at the birth of the psychology of religion at the end of the 19th century, the relation between religion and mental health was a major topic. James, Hall, Leuba and Starbuck studied questions like: 'Is conversion a sign of pathology or is it on the contrary an attempt to integrate an unstable self?', and 'To what degree are intense religious and mystical experiences connected with mental health or psychopathology?' Well-known, as regards the negative or positive influence of re- ligion on mental health, is the controversy between Freud

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Published: Jan 1, 2003

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