Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project

Spirituality and Mental Health

Authors: John Peteet, MD

Abstract

How is spirituality relevant to mental health and to the busy practice of medicine? Until recently, a supplement devoted to this question would have been highly improbable—owing in part to Sigmund Freud's antireligious bias and to the subsequent focus of American psychiatry on the biologic aspects of mental illness.

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