Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatry February-March 2011

UI Department of Psychiatry

Instructors: Judith Crossett and Janeta Tansey

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

1.  Defining the spiritual/religious, including . . . experiences/attitudes/practices/beliefs.

2.  Understanding the unique impact of spiritual/religious experiences on development through the life cycle.

3.  Understanding a differential diagnosis for spiritual/religious phenomena.

4.  Understanding the spiritual/religious factors that affect the course and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

5.  Understanding the impact of spiritual/religious on the relationship between the psychiatrist and the patient.

6.  Understanding how spiritual/religious affect medical ethics.

7.  Understanding the variety of spiritual/religious experiences and traditions.

2.15
Crossett / Faith, Healing, and the Therapeutic Relationship
1.  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=apid=6744
2.22
Tansey / Religious Phenomena--Critical and Skeptical Voices
1.  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
2.  Jackson, Mike; Fulford, K.W.M. “Spiritual Experience and Psychopathology.” Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. March 1997. 42-65.
3.1
Tansey / Religious Phenomena—Charitable Voices
1.  William James. Lecture III--The Reality of the Unseen, in The Varieties of Religious Experience. http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JamVari.html
2.  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.
3.  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.