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	Peter J. Verhagen Psychiatry and Religion Controversies and Consensus: A Matter of Attitude Volume 4 ISBN: 978-3-8440-6550-3 Prijs: 49,80 € / 62,30 SFR
I appreciate this book. It tells the author’s story of his fight in WPA and outside, to obtain recognition for the important topic of psychiatry and religion, and to achieve a consensus in the WPA.
Bron: Prof. Driss Moussaoui, professor emeritus of psychiatry, faculty of medicine of Casablanca, Morocco, past president of the World Association for Social Psychiatry
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	Peter J. Verhagen Psychiatry and Religion Controversies and Consensus: A Matter of Attitude Volume 4 ISBN: 978-3-8440-6550-3 Prijs: 49,80 € / 62,30 SFR
For decades Peter Verhagen, psychiatrist, group psychotherapist, theologian, and co-founder of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry, has dedicated himself to investigate the role of religion and spirituality in psychiatry. In this book he presents his writings as an instrument for reaching consensus in the ongoing controversies about this subject. Given the history of psychiatry it is understandable that in the past dominant psychiatric schools distanced themselves from beliefs in divine or demonic beings as the cause of mental well-being or illness. In this time and age, however, there is much and convincing empirical evidence that religion and spirituality are relevant factors in mental health problems and should not be excluded in clinical practice. Nevertheless there is still an ongoing controversy between clinical and scientific psychiatry about the inclusion of exclusion of the religion/spirituality of clients in psychiatry and mental health care. The purpose of this in-depth book is not to add more arguments pro or contra inclusion, but to explore – and help others explore – the possibilities for reaching consensus. By analysing the backgrounds from which the various elements in the discussions are constructed, Verhagen develops an extremely important model for discussions that hopefully leads to consensus – and certainly to insight into how many of these differences in fact complement each other.
Bron: Dr. Agneta Schreurs: Social psychologist, theologian, philosopher (NL)
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	Peter J. Verhagen Psychiatry and Religion Controversies and Consensus: A Matter of Attitude Volume 4 ISBN: 978-3-8440-6550-3 Prijs: 49,80 € / 62,30 SFR
In 1960, the Committee on Psychiatry and Religion of the New York-based Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry published a report entitled Psychiatry and Religion: Some Steps Toward Mutual Understanding. This group and others worked valiantly half a century ago to change the attitudes of psychiatrists toward religion, with limited success. Verhagen, in the title of the current volume, likewise places “attitude” at the core of the controversies and consensus in the twenty-first century dialogue between psychiatry and religion. He documents the difficult but ultimately successful efforts of the Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry to craft a Position Statement on Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry and to have this statement adopted as an official position of the World Psychiatric Association. His work provides a theory for the integration of psychiatry and religion in clinical practice, and also stands as tribute to all those who worked to achieve the long-desired goal of aligning psychiatric attitudes with the realities of everyday religious and spiritual life.
Bron: Dr. Hendrika Vande Kemp: Former Professor of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary (USA)
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