Religion and Psychiatry: Beyond Boundaries

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between religion and psychiatry, exploring how religious beliefs and practices can inform and improve mental health treatment.

The authors examine the interface between psychiatry and religion at different levels, from daily clinical practice to conceptual fieldwork, and cover phenomenology, epidemiology, research data, explanatory models, and theories.

They also review the development of DSM V and its recognition of the importance of religion and spirituality in mental health.

The book demonstrates how different religious and spiritual traditions can be brought together to improve psychiatric training and daily practice, and describes training programs that successfully incorporate aspects of religion.

This informative and thought-provoking book is a must-read for mental health professionals, researchers, and anyone interested in the intersection of religion and psychiatry.