Psychological benefits of Spiritual Baptist "mourning," II: An empirical assessment
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (2) , 226-229
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.2.226
Abstract
Members of a West Indian Christian sect called the Spirtual Baptists participate in a "mourning" ritual that is characterized by praying, fasting, and the experiencing of dreams and visions while in isolation. Sixteen individuals who underwent mourning were evaluated with the SCL-90-R before and after the ritual. In general, the mourners showed significant improvement on the self-report scales.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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