A Primer for Mental Health Practitioners on the “Spiritual but Not Religious” and the “Nones”
Written by David Saunders, MD, PhD,* Michael Norko, MD, MA,†‡ Brian Fallon, MD, MPH,§ James Phillips, MD,† Jenifer Nields, MD,† Salman Majeed, MD,|| Joseph Merlino, MD, MPA,¶ and Fayez El-Gabalawi, MD# of the Psychiatry and Religion Committee.
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (May 2020)
Religion and Psychiatry in the Age of Neuroscience
THE JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE (January 2020) - In recent decades, an evolving conversation among religion, psychiatry, and neuroscience has been taking place, transforming how we conceptualize religion and how that conceptualization affects its relation to psychiatry. In this article, we review several dimensions of the dialogue, beginning with its history and the phenomenology of religious experience. We then turn to neuroscientific studies to see how they explain religious experience, and we follow that with two related areas: the benefits of religious beliefs and practices, and the evolutionary foundation of those benefits.
ARTICLE (January 2020)
Can Religion Protect Against Suicide?
Written by Michael A. Norko, MD, MAR,*† David Freeman, MD,‡ James Phillips, MD,* William Hunter, MD,§ Richard Lewis, MD,* and Ramaswamy Viswanathan, MD, DMSc|| of the Psychiatry and Religion Committee
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (January 2017)
Leaders and Followers: A Psychiatric Perspective on Religious Cults
A report formulated by the Committee on Psychiatry and Religion written in 1992.
GAP REPORT (1992)
Mysticism: Spiritual Quest or Psychic Disorder
A report formulated by the Committee on Psychiatry and Religion written in November 1976.
GAP REPORT (November 1976)
Psychiatry and Religion: Some Steps Toward Mutual Understanding and Usefulness
A report formulated by the Committee on Psychiatry and Religion written in December 1960.
GAP REPORT (December 1960)
Some Considerations of Early Attempts in Cooperation Between Religion and Psychiatry
Some Considerations of Early Attempts in Cooperation Between Religion and Psychiatry
SYMPOSIUM #5 (1958)
Public Psychiatric Hospitals
A report provided by the Committee on Hospitals summarizing the questionnaire responses received from American psychiatrists on public psychiatric hospitals.
Criminal Responsibility and Psychiatric Expert Testimony
Written by the Committee on Psychiatry and Law
Control and Treatment of Tuberculosis in Mental Health
A report formulated by the Committee on Psychopathology