Psychopathology AND Religious Experience? Toward a Both–And View
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology September 1, 2024 Tasia Scrutton
Abstract: Psychiatric literature about when instances of voice hearing should be regarded as religiously inflected psychopathology and when they should be regarded as religious experiences sometimes presupposes that a person’s experience can only be either psychopathological, or else a genuine religious experience. In this paper I will consider an alternative: the possibility of a both–and...