Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The relationship between religion and schizophrenia is of particular interest to psychiatrists because of the similarities between religious experiences and psychotic episodes. Religious experiences often involve reports of auditory and/or visual phenomena, which sounds seemingly similar to those with schizophrenia who also commonly report ...
In popular culture. In The Cow, an Iranian movie by Dariush Mehrjui the protagonist, Masht Hassan, lives in a cowshed and eats hay after being led to believe that his beloved dairy cow has run away. In his delusion, he speaks on the cow's behalf, claiming under the guise of the cow that her master (Hassan himself) is still watching over her ...
Mental health of Jesus. Ecce Homo, by Antonello da Messina, 1473. The question of whether the historical Jesus was in good mental health has been explored by multiple psychologists, philosophers, historians, and writers. The first person, after several other attempts at tackling the subject, who broadly and thoroughly questioned the mental ...
Jerusalem syndrome. Man claiming to be the messiah in Tel Aviv, 2010. Jerusalem syndrome is a group of mental phenomena involving the presence of religiously themed ideas or experiences that are triggered by a visit to the city of Jerusalem. It is not endemic to one single religion or denomination but has affected Jews, Christians, and Muslims ...
Messiah complex. Byzantine mosaic image of Jesus of Nazareth, a widely recognizable messiah figure. The messiah complex is a mental state in which a person believes they are a messiah or prophet and will save or redeem people in a religious endeavour. [1] [2] The term can also refer to a state of mind in which an individual believes that they ...
Disability and religion. The intersection of disability and religion concerns the manner in which disabled people are treated within religious communities, the religious texts of those religions, or the general input from religious discourse on matters relating to disability. [1] Studies on the relationship between religion and disability vary ...
Drapetomania. Drapetomania was a fake mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity. [1] : 41 [2] This hypothesis was based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental ...
Onan. Onan [a] was a figure detailed in the Book of Genesis chapter 38, [1] as the second son of Judah who married the daughter of Shuah the Canaanite. Onan had an older brother Er and a younger brother, Shelah as well. After being commanded by his father, Judah, to perform his duty as a husband's brother according to the custom of levirate ...