Nigel Wellman

Spirituality or psychosis?--An exploration of the criteria that nurses use to evaluate spiritual-type experiences reported by patients.

International Journal of Nursing Studies February 1, 2003 Jennie Eeles, Trevor Lowe, Nigel Wellman

Spiritual experiences and psychotic symptoms have many aspects of form and content in common. Despite this, clinicians make judgements about the pathology of these experiences and base care-plans on these judgements. Semi-structured interviews incorporating vignettes of spiritual-type experiences were given to 14 UK mental health nurses. This revealed that the nurses employed a complex and...