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ArticleBJPsych bulletin2024

Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice.

Rachel J Cullinan, Angela Woods, Joanna M P Barber, Christopher C H Cook

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Article in BJPsych bulletin, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Fundamental issues in epistemic injustice in healthcare.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rachel J CullinanCumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7420-5223
Angela WoodsDurham University, Durham, UK.
Joanna M P BarberBirmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
Christopher C H CookDurham University, Durham, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7700-7639

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust WT108720
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summaryThis article uses three fictitious case vignettes to raise questions and educate on how clinicians can appropriately approach patients experiencing spiritually significant hallucinations. Religious hallucinations are common but are not pathognomonic of mental illness. They are often intimate experiences for the patient that raise complex questions about psychopathology for clinicians. When assessing a patient with religious hallucinations it is important that clinicians hold at the centre that person's personal experience and create a safe space in which they are listened to and epistemic injustices are avoided. Involvement of chaplaincy services is important not just to support the patient but also to ensure that as clinicians we seek support in understanding the religious nature of these experiences.

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chaplaincyepistemic injusticehallucinationsreligious hallucinationsSpirituality

Identifiers

PMID37042321
PMCPMC10985729

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