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Faith healing practices in the management of psychiatric patients are not unfamiliar in Indian sc... more Faith healing practices in the management of psychiatric patients are not unfamiliar in Indian scenario. The present paper review researches on faith healing and psychotherapy in Indian context. Brief history of faith healing as a psychotherapeutic method, link between faith healing and psychotherapy and different patterns of faith healing has been briefly reviewed. Perspectives on faith healing as part of supportive psychotherapy has also been considered. Some of the issues with respect to faith healing as a part of supportive psychotherapy in India will be made clear in the future, based on doctoral research undertaken by one of the authors.
PARIPEX, 2017
Faith healing practices in the management of psychiatric patients are not unfamiliar in Indian sc... more Faith healing practices in the management of psychiatric patients are not unfamiliar in
Indian scenario. The present paper review researches on faith healing and psychotherapy in
Indian context. Brief history of faith healing as a psychotherapeutic method, link between faith
healing and psychotherapy and different patterns of faith healing has been briefly reviewed.
Perspectives on faith healing as part of supportive psychotherapy has also been considered. Some
of the issues with respect to faith healing as a part of supportive psychotherapy in India will be
made clear in the future, based on doctoral research undertaken by one of the authors.
Keywords: faith healing, psychiatry patients, yoga, mindfulness, Mehendipur-Balaji, trance,
culture- bound syndrome.
Faith healing practices in the management of psychiatric patients are not unfamiliar in Indian sc... more Faith healing practices in the management of psychiatric patients are not unfamiliar in Indian scenario. The present paper review researches on faith healing and psychotherapy in Indian context. Brief history of faith healing as a psychotherapeutic method, link between faith healing and psychotherapy and different patterns of faith healing has been briefly reviewed. Perspectives on faith healing as part of supportive psychotherapy has also been considered. Some of the issues with respect to faith healing as a part of supportive psychotherapy in India will be made clear in the future, based on doctoral research undertaken by one of the authors.
PARIPEX, 2017
Faith healing practices in the management of psychiatric patients are not unfamiliar in Indian sc... more Faith healing practices in the management of psychiatric patients are not unfamiliar in
Indian scenario. The present paper review researches on faith healing and psychotherapy in
Indian context. Brief history of faith healing as a psychotherapeutic method, link between faith
healing and psychotherapy and different patterns of faith healing has been briefly reviewed.
Perspectives on faith healing as part of supportive psychotherapy has also been considered. Some
of the issues with respect to faith healing as a part of supportive psychotherapy in India will be
made clear in the future, based on doctoral research undertaken by one of the authors.
Keywords: faith healing, psychiatry patients, yoga, mindfulness, Mehendipur-Balaji, trance,
culture- bound syndrome.