Prevalence and Effectiveness of Super-Natural Healing among Mental Disorders

Abstract

The study attempted to investigate prevalence and effectiveness of super-natural healing for possible Mental Disorders. The study focused on the spiritual healing practices which are widely spread across Pakistan. The patients were asked for their symptoms, incidence and onset of symptoms, severity and intensity of symptoms and recurrence. On the basis of which, the patients were diagnosed according to DSM-V, the latest edition of APA. The result showed that patients were suffering from psychological problems. The patients needed to seek psychological help but they were not aware of this fact. It’s easy for them to join the traditional spiritual healers. After the results, it was analyzed that, the most commonly prevalent disorder among patients namely; paranoid personality disorder Rating 80%, somatic symptom disorder rating 30% prevailing, brief psychotic and Persistent Depressive disorders are prevailing 20%, others mental disorders including, Other specified disruptive impulse control conduct disorder, Unspecified delusions, Generalized Anxiety Disorder ,Major depressive disorder, Female sexual interest/arousal disorder-lifelong, generalized, moderate, Conversion disorder, with special sensory symptom, Persistent, with psychological stressor and Unspecified sexual disorder are rating as 10% prevailing among these cases. The researcher also has concluded that people who were frequently joined spiritual healers they mostly belonged to lower class families and middle class as well but rate of lower class is high as compared to middle class.