psychosisAlthough delusion is a central characteristic of psychosis, problems with the DSM definition make identification difficult, especially when religious content is involved. This study, involving 255 participants, sought to (1) determine if untrained participants' assessment of religious beliefs would...
I had to laugh like hell. We now have to save time in our busy lives (shopping and talking on cell phones) to get both forms of our cultural psychosis together in the same place at the same time. The next day there was an even more interesting article in the Houston Chronicle about ...
"It makes perfect sense that an interaction with God could outwardly manifest itself as something resembling psychosis," said Abramowitz, regarding the part in which Noah, out in the ark with his family, becomes obsessed with the idea that all humanity is evil and begins to plot the death of...
Fromm, Erich.The Sane Society(Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1955). Glass, James M.Psychosis and Power:Threats to Democracy in the Self and the Group(Cornell University Press, 1995). Gruen, Arno.The Insanity of Normality—Realism as Sickness:Toward an Understanding of Human Destructiveness(Grove ...
Although delusion is a central characteristic of psychosis, problems with the DSM definition make identification difficult, especially when religious content is involved. This study, involving 255 participants, sought to (1) determine if untrained participants' assessment of religious beliefs would be ...
Glass, James M.Psychosis and Power:Threats to Democracy in the Self and the Group(Cornell University Press, 1995). Gruen, Arno.The Insanity of Normality—Realism as Sickness:Toward an Understanding of Human Destructiveness(Grove Press, 1992). ...
and happiness. Returning to James’ definition of religion, the knowledge-insight seekers would match most closely with his concepts, but that would do a disservice to many of the other practitioners. There was an earnestness and focus to many of these practitioners and a genuine joy that sugges...