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Professor Andrew Sims
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March 2009
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Professor Andrew Sims
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Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published
March 2009
£20.75
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Is Faith Delusion?
Today's Price £20.75
Is faith delusion? Is religion bad for your health? How, in a scientifically and technologically advanced age, can people still believe in God/spirit/'other'? Clearly not all believers are primitive and ill-educated; an alternative explanation is that they must be mad, or at least severely neurotic (as suggested by Freud).
This book starts by looking at, and giving reasons for, the connection and the division between Christian faith and psychiatry. It asks whether science challenges Christians involved with psychiatry, as patients or professionals, and whether the spiritual needs of patients are recognised. The author examines the scope and use of the neuro-sciences and considers cause and effect, natural selection and determinism. He explores the overlap (and the difference) between psychiatric symptoms and religious belief, the possible association between demon possession and mental illness, and the idea that some people are intrinsically religious and some are not. The variations of personality are examined, with their implications for belief.
Posited as a statement, that faith is delusion is always hostile, but outcome studies (reviewed here) show that in general religious belief and practice convey good mental health. Religious faith and mental illness are different, and their concepts come from different world-views. A consideration of them in relation to each other is long overdue.
The author is a former Professor of Psychiatry and President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and has also been Chairman of their Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group, so is exceptionally well qualified to address the subject. Although the book is technically proficient, it is aimed at the general reader and is illustrated with stories, brief case histories and anecdotes.
Author
Professor Andrew Sims
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published
March 2009
Weight
300g
Page Count
240
Dimensions
135 x 214 x 21 mm
ISBN
9781847063403
ISBN-10
1847063403
Eden Code
1247613
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Author/Creator: Professor Andrew Sims
ISBN: 9781847063403
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: March 2009
Weight: 300g
Dimensions: 135 x 214 x 21 mm
Eden Code: 1247613