ReviewThe International journal of social psychiatry2015
Religious psychopathology: The prevalence of religious content of delusions and hallucinations in mental disorder.
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- The Role of Spirituality and Religiosity in the Maintenance and Recovery of Psychosis: A Systematic Review.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Religiosity and Anxiety: A Meta-analysis.Journal of religion and health · 2019Pooled it
- Religiosity and Engagement in Early Intervention Programme for First-Episode Psychosis.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The impact of religiosity, anxiety and depression on proneness to auditory hallucinations in healthy individuals.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- Psychoses of Epilepsy: Unravelling the Phenotypic and Genotypic Features.Annals of neurology · 2025Article
- "I was trying to save the world": delusion-like ideation and associated impacts reported by Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice.BJPsych bulletin · 2024Article
- Religious hallucinations in Lebanese patients with schizophrenia and their association with religious coping.BMC research notes · 2023Article
- Brief Psychotic Disorder During the National Lockdown in Italy: An Emerging Clinical Phenomenon of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2021Article
- Delusions of Possession and Religious Coping in Schizophrenia: A Qualitative Study of Four Cases.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Religiosity and Psychotic Ideation in Stable Schizophrenia: A Role for Empathic Perspective-Taking.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Self-Transformation at the Boundary of Religious Conversion and Psychosis.Journal of religion and health · 2020Article
- Reading Margery Kempe's inner voices.Postmedieval : a journal of medieval cultural studies · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundReligious themes are commonly encountered in delusions and hallucinations associated with major mental disorders, and the form and content of presentation are significant in relation to both diagnosis and management.
aimsThis study aimed to establish what is known about the frequency of occurrence of religious delusions (RD) and religious hallucinations (RH) and their inter-relationship.
methodsA review was undertaken of the quantitative empirical English literature on RD and RH.
resultsA total of 55 relevant publications were identified. The lack of critical criteria for defining and classifying RD and RH makes comparisons between studies difficult, but prevalence clearly varies with time and place, and probably also according to personal religiosity. In particular, little is known about the content and frequency of RH and the relationship between RH and RD.
conclusionClearer research criteria are needed to facilitate future study of RD and RH, and more research is needed on the relationship between RD and RH.
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