Problems in the Treatment of Religious Patients
- 1 October 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Vol. 45 (4) , 554-565
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1991.45.4.554
Abstract
Practical guidelines for working with strictly religious patients are presented: (1) cooperation with the patient’s spiritual mentor to reduce the patient’s resistance, (2) examination of the therapist’s own religious attitudes to modify countertransferential feelings, (3) acquisition of knowledge of the patient’s religion to facilitate interviewing, and help distinguish belief from delusion, and ritual from compulsion.Keywords
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- Issues in the Treatment of Religious PatientsAmerican Journal of Psychotherapy, 1981