Abstract
This chapter explains religion and psychoses. The chapter reviews the meager relevant literature and supplements the data with clinical observations made during the author's 50 years of clinical experience in many different mental health settings. The relationship of religion to psychoses is a subject that has not yet been adequately researched. Religion, like any other cultural influence, affects behavior, delusions, and hallucinations in patients with both schizophrenia and major affective disorders. Religion is only one of the factors that influence the content of symptoms. Religion has little etiological influence, although it may serve as a precipitating factor in certain affective disorders. Salvation experiences among Christians are common in both schizophrenia and affective disorders. There is a higher incidence in patients with affective disorders, however, than in active schizophrenia. Salvation experiences can occur in patients who have delirium or dementia but they are relatively uncommon. The research suggests that the religious nurturance of patients with major affective disorders is similar to that of normal controls.
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