The cure of souls: psychiatric dilemmas
Abstract
Misunderstandings quite frequently occur between patients and their doctors because psychiatrists may be unable to comprehend and therefore accept their patient's experience. 'Soul' and 'spirit' are essential characteristics of human life: soul ultimately means 'quick moving', the principle of life; spirit etymologically refers to breath and is also the animating or vital principle.The spiritual aspects of a person include his or her aims and goals, the interrelatedness of human beings, wholeness of person in which spirit is not separate from body or mind, moral aspects of goodness, beauty and enjoyment and an awareness of God. Psychiatrists have historically had difficulties with the spiritual realm, some of the roots of psychiatry have been anti-ecclesiastical and currently psychiatrists are well aware of the harmful effects of some religious groups upon vulnerable patients.However, religious people, those who regard faith, religious practice and spiritual issues as important, have had distrust for some psychiatrists and their publications.There has also been a degree of professional rivalry between clergy and psychiatrists who share some of the same goals for their parishioners/patients. Patients feel themselves sometimes to have been caught in the cross-fire and this has resulted in reluctance to talk about spiritual issues to their psychiatrists or mental health problems to their priest.In practice there is considerable evidence for the benefit of religious belief in achieving good mental health and recovery from mental illness.It is important for the psychiatrist to be aware of patients'religious beliefs and spiritual aspirations, to understand these and know about patients' backgrounds. It is harmful for psychiatrists to try and impose their own views and understandings upon their patients.
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- Authors
- SIMS, A.
- Affiliations
- St James's University Hospital (GB)
- Corresponding author
- SIMS, ANDREW
- ORCID
- SIMS, ANDREW
- Venue
- International Review of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1999-01
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2-3
- Pages
- 97-102
- ISSN
- 0954-0261 (ISSN-L)
- 1369-1627
- OpenAlex
- W2149941854
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2016: 2 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Review of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Demography › Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Keywords
- spirituality in psychiatry, religious beliefs, spiritual care, physician-patient relationship, mental illness recovery
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