Religions, Spirituality, and Psychiatry
Springer Nature
This unprecedented collection presents a model process and guideline for a comprehensive interfaith consideration of our various mental health challenges and elusive solutions. With the continuity of 3 prominent interfaith editors, each book is also written by a diverse group of international experts on specific religions and on the interface of psychiatry, religion and spirituality. Given the hatred, misunderstandings and fear of the other that can arise out of religion, there is hardly a more cogent, potent, and urgent global social psychiatric challenge. This collection consists of four volumes: Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry: Recognition, Prevention, and Interventions (2020); Christianity and Psychiatry (2021); Eastern Religions, Spirituality, and Psychiatry: An Expansive Perspective on Mental Health and Illness (2024); and Islamophobia and Psychiatry: Recognition, Prevention, and Treatment, Second Edition (2026). Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry examines the cross-cultural and psychiatric interaction between anti-Semitism and clinical mental health. Christianity and Psychiatry addresses psychiatric challenges that can arise when caring for Christian patients, including moral injury…