The outbreak of the first psychotic episode disarrays the person's everyday experience and of significant others. This work takes the notion of experience as the key mediating variable to understand how the cultural and social frame affects the experience of psychosis. Culture contributes to the articulation of the experience of psychosis through its influence on individual, family, and community reactions. I focused on the first psychotic experience of low-income youth living in Sao Paulo, Brazil because one can see more clearly the role played by the cultural and social dimensions, since the process of experiencing psychosis is not yet totally settled.I emphasized the basic strategies created by psychotic patients and their families to re...
A lot of people live situations of mental sickness, from psychotic character, that can cause sufferi...
The inter relationship between religion and mental illness is very complex. Religion can be an effec...
INTRODUCTION: It has been well documented that schizophrenia presents a better clinical course in de...
Abstract Religion plays an important role in the lives of people with psychosis. Based on fieldwork ...
Religion plays an important role in the lives of people with psychosis. Based on fieldwork with 21 f...
Abstract This thesis adds to the literature on psychosis in relation to religion and culture. The re...
This study investigated the potential developmental, maintaining, or protective role of religious be...
Family concepts of a relative’s illness are an important part of the coping process and reveal the c...
Family concepts of a relative's illness are an important part of the coping process and reveal the c...
The objective of this doctoral thesis is the study of the social and cultural factors that are assoc...
This conference is centered on reported or observed psychotic experiences and discusses the ways in ...
This thesis deals with religious interpretations of psychotic illness. In the theoretical part, the ...
Objective: This paper aims to explore the interface between religion and psychosis, and to comment o...
Family conceptions of the nature of their relative\u27s illness are part of the coping process and r...
Schizophrenia, among all major psychiatric disorders, has been of the greatest concern to clinicians...
A lot of people live situations of mental sickness, from psychotic character, that can cause sufferi...
The inter relationship between religion and mental illness is very complex. Religion can be an effec...
INTRODUCTION: It has been well documented that schizophrenia presents a better clinical course in de...
Abstract Religion plays an important role in the lives of people with psychosis. Based on fieldwork ...
Religion plays an important role in the lives of people with psychosis. Based on fieldwork with 21 f...
Abstract This thesis adds to the literature on psychosis in relation to religion and culture. The re...
This study investigated the potential developmental, maintaining, or protective role of religious be...
Family concepts of a relative’s illness are an important part of the coping process and reveal the c...
Family concepts of a relative's illness are an important part of the coping process and reveal the c...
The objective of this doctoral thesis is the study of the social and cultural factors that are assoc...
This conference is centered on reported or observed psychotic experiences and discusses the ways in ...
This thesis deals with religious interpretations of psychotic illness. In the theoretical part, the ...
Objective: This paper aims to explore the interface between religion and psychosis, and to comment o...
Family conceptions of the nature of their relative\u27s illness are part of the coping process and r...
Schizophrenia, among all major psychiatric disorders, has been of the greatest concern to clinicians...
A lot of people live situations of mental sickness, from psychotic character, that can cause sufferi...
The inter relationship between religion and mental illness is very complex. Religion can be an effec...
INTRODUCTION: It has been well documented that schizophrenia presents a better clinical course in de...