Adair Menezes

Religion, spirituality, and psychosis.

Current Psychiatry Reports June 1, 2010 Adair Menezes, Alexander Moreira-Almeida

This review discusses the relationships between religion, spirituality, and psychosis. Based on the DSM-IV, we comment on the concept of spiritual and religious problems, which, although they may seem to be psychotic episodes, are actually manifestations of nonpathological spiritual and religious experiences. Studies reporting that hallucinations also occur in the nonclinical population and...