Main description:

Dinesh Bhugra is president elect of the British Medical Association and the World Psychiatric Association.

Contents:

Table of Contents

Dedication

List of Contributors

Preface for the Classic Edition

Part I Introduction and History

Chapter 1 Religion and Mental Heath

Dinesh Bhugra

Chapter 2 Religion and Psychiatry: Extending the Limits of Tolerance

K.W.M. Fulford

Chapter 3 Religion and Madness in History

Maurice Lipsedge

Part II Religions: East and West

Chapter 4 Christianity and Psychiatry

John Foskett

Chapter 5 'The Cracked Crucible': Judaism and Mental Health

Howard Cooper

Chapter 6 Psychosocial Factors and the Genesis of New African-American Religious Groups

Ezra E.H. Griffith & Khalipha M. Bility

Chapter 7 Hinduism and Ayurveda: Implications for Managing Mental Health

Dinesh Bhugra

Chapter 8 Buddhist Psychology and Implications for Treatment

Padmal de Silva

Chapter 9 New Religions and Mental Health

Eileen Barker

Chapter 10 Islamic Communities and Mental Health

Aziz Esmail

Part III Psychopathology, Psychiatry and Religion

Chapter 11 Psychiatry and Religion: A General Psychiatrist's Perspective

John L. Cox

Chapter 12 The Neurophysiology of Religious Experience

Peter Fenwick

Chapter 13 Psychopathology, Emobodiment and Religious Innovation: An Historical Instance

Roland Littlewood

Chapter 14 Guilt, Religion and Ritual

Tony Nayani & Dinesh Bhugra

Chapter 15 Mental Illness or Life Crisis? A Christian Pastoral Counselling Contribution

Mark Sutherland

Chapter 16 Conclusions: Religion, Mental Illness and Mental Health - The Way Forward

Dinesh Bhugra

Index