One Mind or Two?: How Psychiatrists and Psychologists Reconcile Faith and Science
Utilizing qualitative interviews, this study showed how, to what extent, and why psychiatrists and psychologists of Judeo-Christian religious orientations or nonaffiliated believers in Michigan were willing or reluctant to integrate religious paradigms in their mental health practices. Most of the s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2008]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2008, Volume: 47, Issue: 3, Pages: 338-353 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Psychology B Religion B Qualitative Research B Psychiatry |
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| Summary: | Utilizing qualitative interviews, this study showed how, to what extent, and why psychiatrists and psychologists of Judeo-Christian religious orientations or nonaffiliated believers in Michigan were willing or reluctant to integrate religious paradigms in their mental health practices. Most of the study participants were found to believe that medical-scientific and religious paradigms are equally important and may coexist or even be integrated in psychotherapeutic practice. However, actual attempts to integrate them usually reflected the practitioners' personal religious backgrounds and initiatives and/or were client driven. Yet these integration initiatives were found to face powerful institutional impediments such as politico-cultural norms of separation of religion from secular institutions and professional norms. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-007-9149-7 |