In the aftermath of slavery, white psychiatrists diagnosed Black people with “religious excitement” and claimed they were ...

An international set of case studies suggests that ignoring people’s spiritual worlds blinds clinicians to key sources of ...

A Roman Catholic priest and a psychiatrist have written a book that may solve, or at least clarify, some of the tension between their callings. Dr. Robert P. Odenwald, once a Berlin psychiatrist, now ...

'Religion and Psychiatry: Beyond Boundaries,' edited by Dr. Peter Verhagen, Prof. Herman M. Van Praag, Prof. Juan José López-Ibor, Jr., Prof. John Cox and Prof. Driss Moussaoui "The boundary between ...

During research for her 2016 book, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration, religion scholar Judith Weisenfeld was struck by the rate at which African ...

In Princeton's 2020 Discovery magazine, Judith Weisenfeld, the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion and chair of the Department of Religion, explains how psychiatry was used to ...

Ms. A's experience as a person of faith with a mental illness who found herself caught between the truths of science and religion struck a personal chord with many commenters. Crystal M. was one of ...

When today we ponder the future of religion, we find ourselves in a quandary that seems to have no solution. Over the last fifty years, the number of people who identify with traditional forms of ...

The influence of psychiatry on religion was discussed at the four-day national institute held this week at Brandeis Camp in Santa Susanna, California, and attended by more than 100 Jewish leaders from ...

As WE move forward, with ever-accelerating tempo, into what we are pleased to call the Age of Science, we are faced by an awesome paradox. As man, through science, acquires more and more control over ...

The doctor sat behind a desk at the apex of the L-shaped room; the ministers and their wives sat at ease before him. At the doctor’s right was a blackboard, and on his desk stood a microphone wired to ...