Religions and Psychotherapies
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2011) | Viewed by 153963
Special Issue Editors
Interests: interdisciplinary dialogue between theology and human sciences, esp. psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis; interdisciplinary anthropology and ethics; religions and their social welfare as well as (social) ethics; theology, history, and spirituality of Caritas; Caritas and Christian social work in its ecclesiological, civil and international contexts
Interests: spirituality and psychotherapy; religious beliefs in the context of psychiatric disorders; exercise and its influence on the neurobiology of the brain; emergency psychiatry; crisis intervention; schizophrenia; dementia
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This issue is dedicated to reviews, theoretical and clinical original studies on questions regarding the relationship between religions and psychotherapies. It invites scholars, researchers and practitioners to contribute to interdisciplinary dialogues regarding the role of (various) religious attitudes of clients/ patients/ therapists in (various) psychotherapeutic treatments, religious doctrines and interpretations with regard to psychic disorders, psychotherapeutic metapsychologies regarding religions and religious attitudes, religious practices and coping with psychic stress and disorders. It thus includes both general and basic principles/ issues as well as specific questions regarding treatments and methods.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Baumann
Prof. Dr. Frank-Gerald B. Pajonk
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- religiosity of patients and clinicians
- religious values and psychotherapies
- metapsychologies and religions
- abstinence and neutrality in treatment
- religious interpretations of psychic disorders
- religious coping
- psychotherapeutic schools and techniques
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