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Is faith delusion? [electronic resource] : why religion is good for your health / Andrew Sims.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 237 p.)ISBN: - 9781441129215 (electronic bk.)
- 1441129219 (electronic bk.)
- 234.23 22
- RC489.S676 S56 2009eb
- 2009 G-822
- WM 61
Contents:
Summary: Is faith delusion? Is religion bad for your health? How, in a scientifically and technologically advanced age, can people still believe in God/spirit/'other'? Clearly not all believers are primitive and ill-educated; an alternative explanation is that they must be mad, or at least severely neurotic (as suggested by Freud). This book starts by looking at, and giving reasons for, the connection and the division between Christian faith and psychiatry. It asks whether science challenges Christians involved with psychiatry, as patients or professionals, and whether the spiritual
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 'Psyche' means more than mind; 2 What is Christian faith?; 3 Why the warfare?; 4 Psychiatry, science and faith; 5 Can religion damage your health?; 6 Delusion is a psychiatric term; 7 The Intersection of Psychiatry and Belief; 8 Inner and outer demons; 9 Personality and personality disorder; 10 Resolving the question; Epilogue; Index;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 'Psyche' means more than mind; 2 What is Christian faith?; 3 Why the warfare?; 4 Psychiatry, science and faith; 5 Can religion damage your health?; 6 Delusion is a psychiatric term; 7 The Intersection of Psychiatry and Belief; 8 Inner and outer demons; 9 Personality and personality disorder; 10 Resolving the question; Epilogue; Index;
Is faith delusion? Is religion bad for your health? How, in a scientifically and technologically advanced age, can people still believe in God/spirit/'other'? Clearly not all believers are primitive and ill-educated; an alternative explanation is that they must be mad, or at least severely neurotic (as suggested by Freud). This book starts by looking at, and giving reasons for, the connection and the division between Christian faith and psychiatry. It asks whether science challenges Christians involved with psychiatry, as patients or professionals, and whether the spiritual
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