Religion and psychosis: the effects of the Welsh religious revival in 1904-1905.
Psychological Medicine August 1, 2010 S C Linden, M Harris, C Whitaker et al.
Psychotic symptoms have been linked to religious experience, but empirical evidence is scarce. We have investigated the impact of the Welsh religious revival (RR) of 1904-1905 on the number of admissions to the regional psychiatric hospital, their diagnostic features and lifelong course. All case-notes of patients admitted to the North Wales Hospital between 1902 and 1907 were included. There...