This book provides a thorough, comprehensive, and accessible reference for all the major Eastern faith traditions and their intersection with psychiatry. Understanding Eastern religion is of paramount value to all mental health professionals, as there is a growing emphasis on religion and spirituality as a part of clinical cultural competence interventions, predominantly in North America and Europe. Additionally, there is rising membership in Eastern, Asian, and non-Semitic faith traditions in North America and Europe. Hence, more patients and clinicians belong to these non-Western faiths than ever before.
The volume is divided into five parts. Part 1 covers general issues, including principles of culture, religion, and spirituality in psychiatry, spirituality across the lifespan, child rearing, practice and faith, and how death and dying is approached in these Eastern traditions. Part 2 covers specific Eastern religions and spiritual traditions, including basic principles and research-based clinical aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, as well as Confucian philosophical ideas. Part 3 attempts to apply the importance of cultural humility to perspectives on the Eastern Traditions from Western Psychiatry. These include Christian, Muslim, and Jewish perspectives, not of expertise, but of explorations in learning. Part 4 covers specific social psychiatric perspectives, including the psychiatric harm that can come from caste divisions and cults posing as religions, but closes with a perspective on the Eastern connections to the relatively unknown, but unifying, Omnist perspective.
All mental health professionals seeking to expand their understanding of the essential belief systems of various Eastern religions and their connection with mental health will find Eastern Religions, Spirituality, and Psychiatry an invaluable resource.
Recenzijas
A 4th volume on religions, mental health, and related ontological fields is published in 5 years by a distinguished editorial group, speaks not only of the tenacious commitment of these scholars but also about the inexhaustible nature of the topics and their pervasive fostering of reflections and challenges. this new publication adds descriptions and discussions on Eastern religions, effectively expanding their perspectives toward new fields of knowledge. (Renato D. Alarcón, Psychiatric Times, psychiatrictimes.com, January 16, 2025)
Part 1: General Issues.
Chapter 1. Culture, Religion and Spirituality
in Mental Health and Illness.
Chapter
2. Eastern Spirituality and Mental
Health: Beyond the Mind.
Chapter
3. Spirituality Across the Lifespan, with
Emphasis on Eastern Traditions.
Chapter
4. Eastern Religions and Their
Influence on Parenting.
Chapter
5. Learning about Death and Dying in the
Eastern Traditions.
Chapter
6. Practice and Faith in the Eastern
Traditions.
Chapter
7. Spirituality: Relationship with Religion, Health,
Wisdom, and Positive Psychiatry.- Part 2: Specific Eastern Religious and
Spiritual Traditions.
Chapter
8. Basic Aspects and Clinical Implications of
Hinduism.
Chapter
9. Utilizing Ancient Hindu Scriptures to Conceptualize and
Manage Anxiety Disorders.
Chapter
10. Basic Principles and Clinical Aspects
of Buddhism in Psychotherapy.
Chapter
11. Mental Health and Well-Being in
Buddhism.
Chapter
12. Deeper Understanding of Self and Psychiatry: Personal
Insights from a Tribal Buddhist in North India.
Chapter
13. Sikh Tenets and
Experiences that Relate to Mental Health and Wellbeing.
Chapter 14. Basic
Principles and Clinical Aspects of Taoism.
Chapter 15. Zoroastrian
Religion: Zoroaster - the First Prophet.
Chapter 16. Zoroastrianism:
Clinical and Literary Applications.
Chapter
17. Basic Principles and
Clinical Considerations of Jainism.
Chapter
18. The Theory and Practice of
Chinese Confucian Mental Health Education.- Part 3: Cultural Humility
Perspectives on the Eastern Traditions from Western Psychiatry.
Chapter 19.
A Christian Perspective on the Eastern Religions and Mental Health.
Chapter
20. A Muslim Psychiatrists Perspective on the Eastern Religions,
Spirituality, and Mental Health.
Chapter
21. A Jewish Psychiatrists
Perspective on the Eastern Religions, Spirituality, and Mental Health.-
Chapter
22. How did a nice Jewish girl like you get so interested in Asia?.-
Chapter 23. Integrating Judaic and Buddhist Insightsinto Psychotherapy and
Counseling.
Chapter 24. Fifty Years and Counting: Meditation Practice and
Experience in the Context of a Psychiatric Career.
Chapter
25. Looking at
the West Looking at the East: The Radical Western Search for Self Through the
Faith of Imagined Others.- Part 4: Social Psychiatric Perspectives.
Chapter
26. At the Sufi Tavern: Adventures in African and Eastern Spirituality.-
Chapter 27. Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus in Kerala, India.
Chapter
28. Caste in Religion and in Health Equity.
Chapter 29. Assessment of
Potential Harm in Eastern Religions: The Influence Continuum and the BITE
Model of Authoritarian Control.
Chapter
30. Omnism: A Religion for All.-
Part 5: Conclusions.
Chapter 31. Afterward.
H. Steven Moffic, MD
Private Community Psychiatrist
Milwaukee, WI
Rama Rao Gogineni, MD
Head of Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Cooper Medical School of Rowan
University
Camden, NJ
John R. Peteet, MD
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Brigham and Womens Hospital
Boston, MA
Neil Krishan Aggaral, MD, MBA, MA
Research Psychiatrist
New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
New York, NY
Narpinder K Malhi, MD
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
ChristianaCare Behavioral Health
Wilmington, Delaware
Ahmed Hankir, MBChB, MRCPsych
Senior Research Fellow
General Adult Psychiatry
Institute of Psychiatry
Kings College
London, UK
