Neural and cognitive basis of spiritual experience: biopsychosocial and ethical implications for clinical medicine.
Explore (New York, N.Y.) May 2006 James Giordano, Joan C. Engebretson
The role of patient spirituality and spiritual/liminal experience(s; SE) in the clinical setting has generated considerable equivocality within the medical community. Spiritual experience(s), characterized by circumstance, manifestation, and interpretation, reflect patients' explanatory models. We seek to demonstrate the importance of SE to clinical medicine by illustrating biological,...