Research Catalog

Title

Psychiatric medication and spirituality : an unforeseen relationship / Lynne Esther Vanderpot.

Author

Vanderpot, Lynne

Publication

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.

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Details

Description

235 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Challenging an exclusively medical approach to mental health and illness, this book considers the impact psychiatric drugs can have on spirituality. In the last thirty years, a dramatic rise in medication as a treatment for mental illness has occurred in tandem with increasing numbers of people entering treatment with a spiritually-oriented understanding of their suffering. The unforeseen result is that some people taking psychiatric drugs are engaging with them in ways that can have a profound impact on the course and outcome of treatment. Based on interviews with people on psychiatric medication who regard spirituality as significant in their lives, this book reveals how medication can be perceived as both helpful and harmful to spirituality." -- provided by publisher

Subject

• Psychotropic drugs
• Psychopharmacology
• Spirituality
• Health > Religious aspects
• Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
• Psychotropic Drugs > therapeutic use
• Spirituality
• Drug Therapy > psychology
• Mental Disorders > drug therapy
• Psychotropic Drugs
• Psychopharmacology
• Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
• Health > Religious aspects
• Psychotropic drugs
• Mental disorders

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and indexes.

Contents

Hallowed be thy tablets -- Understanding spirituality -- Understanding psychopharmacology -- Medication enhances spirituality -- Medication hinders spirituality -- Rich times for rethinking the world -- Conclusion/hope.

ISBN

• 9781785921261
• 1785921266
• 9781784503918 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017028860

OCLC

• ocn973795197
• 973795197
• SCSB-9836152

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library