Religious Psychopathology

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The psychopathology of religion is a branch of the psychopathology ("doctrine of the diseases of the soul"). It deals with the religious experience in the context of neuro-psychiatric diseases. Religious experience is neither "explained" as a psychopathological phenomenon, nor is its truthfulness questioned. Rather, religious psychopathology is limited to describing religious experience and placing it in a phenomenological context with the underlying neuro-psychiatric disease.

Isolated special forms and borderline cases of the psychology of religion, such as stigmatization, are often assigned to the psychopathology of religion from a neurological and psychiatric point of view .

literature

  • Kurt Schneider : For an introduction to the psychopathology of religion . Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1928.
  • Hans Jörg Weitbrecht : Contributions to the psychopathology of religion. Especially on the psychopathology of conversion . Scherer, Heidelberg 1948.
  • Jacob Schou: Religion and sick soul life . Railway, Schwerin 1925.
  • Walter Pöldinger, Ottokar G. Graf zu Wittgenstein: Psychology and psychopathology of hope and faith . Huber, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-456-80969-7 .
  • JC Markowitz: Religiosity and psychopathology. In: J Clin Psychiatry. 55 (9), 1994, pp. 414-415.
  • WW Meissner: The phenomenology of religious psychopathology. In: Bull Menninger Clin. 55 (3), 1991, pp. 281-298.
  • B. Trappler, J. Endicott: Religion and psychopathology. In: Am J Psychiatry. 154 (11), 1997, p. 1636.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Halina Grzymala-Moszczynska, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi: Religion, Psychopathology and coping. 1996, p. 24.