Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatry
UI Department of Psychiatry
Instructors: Judith Crossett and Janeta Tansey
February-March 2011
Course Description: A 3-seminar course of topics in religion and spirituality, using graduate-level readings and
group discussion.
Course Expectations: Instructors have carefully chosen readings to support the educational process. Completion of
the assigned reading assignments in advance of the discussion is considered not only mandatory, but the minimum
respect due to topics and instructors.
Objective: To provide residents with an opportunity to consider and discuss issues in religion and spirituality
relevant to recommended competencies.
National Institute for Healthcare Research Knowledge Competencies
Puchalski, et al. Spirituality in Psychiatric Residency Training. Int Review of Psych (2001)
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09540260124071
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Defining the spiritual/religious, including . . . experiences/attitudes/practices/beliefs.
Understanding the unique impact of spiritual/religious experiences on development through the life cycle.
Understanding a differential diagnosis for spiritual/religious phenomena.
Understanding the spiritual/religious factors that affect the course and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
Understanding the impact of spiritual/religious on the relationship between the psychiatrist and the patient.
Understanding how spiritual/religious affect medical ethics.
Understanding the variety of spiritual/religious experiences and traditions.
2.15
Faith, Healing, and the Therapeutic Relationship
Crossett
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Miles, Sara. jesus freak: feeding, healing, raising the dead.
Please read the chapter “healing”; available as an e-book through UI Libraries:
http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/content.php?hs=a&pid=6744
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Religious Phenomena--Critical and Skeptical Voices
Tansey
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Sigmund Freud.
Chp. 4-from- Future of an Illusion, and Chapter 2-from-Civilization and
its Discontents.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/ownwords/future1.html
Jackson, Mike; Fulford, K.W.M. “Spiritual Experience and Psychopathology.” Philosophy,
Psychiatry, and Psychology. March 1997. 42-65.
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Religious Phenomena—Charitable Voices
Tansey
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William James.
Experience.
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Lecture III--The Reality of the Unseen, in The Varieties of Religious
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JamVari.html
Hall, Koenig, and Meador. “Conceptualizing Religion—how language shapes and constrains
knowledge in the study of religion and health.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Summer
2004. 286-401.
Skalla, Karen. McCoy, J. Patrick. “Spiritual Assessment of Patients With Cancer: The Moral
Authority, Vocational, Aesthetic, Social, and Transcendent Model.” Oncology Nursing Forum.
33:4. July 2006. 745-751.