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"Messiah of the schizophrenics" Jan Foudraine and anti-psychiatry in Holland.
Clio Med
February 1999
Trimbos Instituut, The Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Utrecht.
The messiah-complex in schizophrenia.
Psychol Rep
August 1993
School of Humanities, New York Institute of Technology, NY 10023.
After suggesting that religio-egocentricity and the messiah-complex may be a universal pattern in the psychoses, this paper briefly addresses three questions. First, in general, what is the relationship between religious emotions and schizophrenia? Second, why is it that the messiah-complex surfaces so often in the psychoses? Finally, what is the healthy dimension of religiosity?
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe article that begins below is the fifth in a series of personal accounts to be published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin. In describing his account, the author commented: "The viewpoint is solely my consciousness. The substance of every statement and the specific words in many statements actually occurred to me.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThough most previous publications described religious delusions only among Christians, a review of cases at Friends Hospital revealed that they are equally common among Jews. Five cases are given, four illustrating psychotic reactions to stress, one demonstrating that a religious experience does not necessarily result in psychosis. Content may come from either the Old or New Testaments.
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