VOLUME 34 • SUPLEMENTO 1 • 2007


Editorial
 
Spirituality and health: past and future of a controversial and challenging relationship
3-4
Alexander Moreira-Almeida
 

Foreword
 
Religion, spirituality and psychiatry: a new era in mental health care
5-7
Harold G. Koenig


Original Papers

Remarks on the scientific exploration of “anomalous” psychiatric phenomena
8-15
Silvio Seno Chibeni, Alexander Moreira-Almeida

Humanity’s first healers: psychological and psychiatric stances
on shamans and shamanism
16-22

Stanley Krippner


Spiritual practices in an institution for mentally disabled
23-28

Frederico Camelo Leão, Francisco Lotufo Neto


Training program about the therapeutical intervention “relaxation, mental images and spirituality” (RIME) to resignify the spiritual pain of terminal patients
29-39

Ana Catarina Araújo Elias, Joel Sales Giglio, Cibele Andrucioli de Mattos Pimenta, Linda Gentry El-Dash



Reviews

Religion, spirituality and psychotic disorders
40-48

Harold G. Koenig


Near-death experience: clinical implications
49-57

Bruce Greyson


Spirituality, religiousness and psychotherapy
58-66

Julio Fernando Prieto Peres, Manoel José Pereira Simão, Antonia Gladys Nasello



Points of View

Explaining the meaning of the WHOQOL-SRPB
67-69
Marcelo P. Fleck, Suzanne Skevington

Half a career with the paranormal
70-75
Ian Stevenson

 

Órgão Oficial do Departamento e Instituto de Psiquiatria
Faculdade de Medicina  - Universidade de São Paulo