This unprecedented collection presents a model process and guideline for a comprehensive interfaith consideration of our various mental health challenges and elusive solutions. With the continuity of 3 prominent interfaith editors, each book is also written by a diverse group of international experts on specific religions and on the interface of psychiatry, religion and spirituality. Given the hatred, misunderstandings and fear of the other that can arise out of religion, there is hardly a more cogent, potent, and urgent global social psychiatric challenge. This collection consists of four volumes: Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry: Recognition, Prevention, and Interventions (2020); Christianity and Psychiatry (2021); Eastern Religions, Spirituality, and Psychiatry: An Expansive Perspective on Mental Health and Illness (2024); and Islamophobia and Psychiatry: Recognition, Prevention, and Treatment, Second Edition (2026). Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry examines the cross-cultural and psychiatric interaction between anti-Semitism and clinical mental health. Christianity and Psychiatry addresses psychiatric challenges that can arise when caring for Christian patients, including moral injury and how to infuse Christianity into care. Eastern Religions, Spirituality, and Psychiatry provides a thorough, comprehensive, and accessible reference for all the major Eastern faith traditions and their intersection with psychiatry, as well as a strong focus on spirituality and meditation techniques. Islamophobia and Psychiatry covers the challenges that are rather unique to Muslims, drawing from an internationally, ethnically, and intergenerational diverse pool of experts in this necessary updated second edition. The collective whole has become greater than its separate volumes as problems and principles, similarities, scapegoating, and timeliness and timelessness has infused the ongoing and collective religious and spiritual considerations. Religions, Spirituality, and Psychiatry: The Collection is a vital resource for the continued development and understanding of how religion, spirituality, and psychiatry is connected. Besides examining the basics and strengths of each religion, there are also necessary words of caution in regards to extreme fundamentalism and cultish manipulation. In short, this collection helps us understand each others religious and spiritual lives. With such understanding and general applicability can come more human empathy, compassion, improved therapeutic outcomes, and humanitarian help for all, religious or not. The collection will help all mental health caregivers develop the tools needed to improve clinical outcomes, address interfaith conflicts, and enhance their own professional development.
Eastern Religions, Spirituality, and Psychiatry: Part 1: General
Issues.
Chapter
1. Culture, Religion and Spirituality in Mental Health and
Illness.
Chapter
2. Eastern Spirituality and Mental Health: Beyond the
Mind.
Chapter
3. Spirituality Across the Lifespan, with Emphasis on Eastern
Traditions.
Chapter
4. Eastern Religions and Their Influence on Parenting.-
Chapter
5. Learning about Death and Dying in the Eastern Traditions.
Chapter
6. Practice and Faith in the Eastern Traditions.
Chapter
7. Spirituality:
Relationship with Religion, Health, Wisdom, and Positive Psychiatry.- Part 2:
Specific Eastern Religious and Spiritual Traditions.
Chapter
8. Basic
Aspects and Clinical Implications of Hinduism.
Chapter
9. Utilizing Ancient
Hindu Scriptures to Conceptualize and Manage Anxiety Disorders.
Chapter
10.
Basic Principles and Clinical Aspects of Buddhism in Psychotherapy.
Chapter
11. Mental Health and Well-Being in Buddhism.
Chapter
12. Deeper
Understanding of Self and Psychiatry: Personal Insights from a Tribal
Buddhist in North India.
Chapter
13. Sikh Tenets and Experiences that Relate
to Mental Health and Wellbeing.
Chapter
14. Basic Principles and Clinical
Aspects of Taoism.
Chapter
15. Zoroastrian Religion: Zoroaster - the First
Prophet.
Chapter
16. Zoroastrianism: Clinical and Literary Applications.-
Chapter
17. Basic Principles and Clinical Considerations of Jainism.
Chapter
18. The Theory and Practice of Chinese Confucian Mental Health Education.-
Part 3: Cultural Humility Perspectives on the Eastern Traditions from Western
Psychiatry.
Chapter
19. A Christian Perspective on the Eastern Religions
and Mental Health.
Chapter
20. A Muslim Psychiatrists Perspective on the
Eastern Religions, Spirituality, and Mental Health.
Chapter
21. A Jewish
Psychiatrists Perspective on the Eastern Religions, Spirituality, and Mental
Health.
Chapter
22. How did a nice Jewish girl like you get so interested in
Asia?.
Chapter
23. Integrating Judaic and Buddhist Insightsinto
Psychotherapy and Counseling.
Chapter
24. Fifty Years and Counting:
Meditation Practice and Experience in the Context of a Psychiatric Career.-
Chapter
25. Looking at the West Looking at the East: The Radical Western
Search for Self Through the Faith of Imagined Others.- Part 4: Social
Psychiatric Perspectives.
Chapter
26. At the Sufi Tavern: Adventures in
African and Eastern Spirituality.
Chapter
27. Christians, Jews, Muslims,
and Hindus in Kerala, India.
Chapter
28. Caste in Religion and in Health
Equity.
Chapter
29. Assessment of Potential Harm in Eastern Religions: The
Influence Continuum and the BITE Model of Authoritarian Control.
Chapter
30.
Omnism: A Religion for All.- Part 5: Conclusions.
Chapter
31. Afterward.
Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry: A Short History of the Jewish People.- A Short
History of Anti-Semitism.- Prejudice: Intra and Interpersonal Aspects.-
Biological Determinants of Bigotry and Its Role in the Resurgence of Severe
Anti-Semitism.- An Artistic View of Anti-Semitism.- Anti-Semitism and the
Jewish Identity.- A Personal Psychiatric History of Anti-Semitism.-
Anti-Semitism: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations from a Jewish
Psychiatrist.- Anti-Semitism: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations
from a Christian Psychiatrist.- Anti-Semitism: Social, Religious, and
Clinical Considerations from a Muslim Psychiatrist.- Anti-Semitism: Social,
Religious, and Clinical Considerations from a Hindu Psychiatrist.- The
Psychological Effects of Anti-Semitism on the Perpetrators and Victims.-
Anti-Semitism: The Jungian Approach.- Anti-Semitism: The Psychoanalytic
Approach.- Jewish Stereotypes in Diagnosis and Treatment.- The Treatment of
Anti-Semitic Patients.- Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Intergenerational
Transmission of Trauma.- Community Resilience and the Tree of Life
Shootings.- Judaism and Rural Psychiatry.- Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in
the Middle East.- A Psychiatric Approach to the Prevention and Treatment of
Hate Crimes.- Harnessing the Power of Film to Challenge Anti-Semitism.- The
Role of Jewish Agencies in Reducing Anti-Semitism.- Leadership for Reducing
Anti-Semitism.- Can Anti-Semitism be Cured?.
Christianity and Psychiatry: The Fraught History of Psychiatry and
Christianity.- Mental Illness Stigma in Christian Communities.- Psychotic
symptoms and spiritual phenomena.- Mood Disorders & Christianity.- Working
with Christian Children and Families.- Trauma.- Understanding Moral Injury in
Individuals: Current Models, Concepts, and Treatments.- Moral Injury in
Christian Organizations: Sacred Moral Injury.- Christianity and Disability.-
Miracles and Care at the End of Life.- Addiction and Twelve-Step
Spirituality.- Models of integration of Christian worldview and psychiatry.-
Christian Integrated Psychotherapy.- Models of Delivering Christian
Psychiatric Care.- Clergy-Clinician Collaboration.- Principles and Practice
in Educating Christians About Mental Health A Primer.- Called to lead?.-
Treating Christian Patients as a Non-Christian Psychiatrist.- A Jewish
Psychiatrists Perspective.- Christianity from a British-Muslim
Psychiatrists Perspective.- A Christian Psychiatrists Perspective.
Islamophobia and Psychiatry: Editors Introduction to Second Edition.-
Editors Introduction.- Part I. General Issues.-
1. Mental Health in the
Islamic Golden Era: The Historical Roots of Modern Psychiatry.-
2.
Islamophobia: An Introduction to the Academic Field, Methods, and
Approaches.-
3. Islamic Perspectives on Psychological and Spiritual
Well-Being and Treatment.-
4. Religiosity and Mental Health in Islam.-
5. The
Social Psychology and Neurobiology of Intergroup Conflict.-
6. Art for a
Better World.-
7. Symbols and Identity in Islamophobia.-
8. Cultural
Literacy.-
9. Psychiatric Cultural Formulation in the Islamophobic Context.-
10. Clinical Assessment Tools for the Culturally Competent Treatment of
Muslim Patients.-
11. History of Islamophobia in American Society.- Part II.
Psychiatric Implications of Islamophobia.-
12. Transference and
Countertransference in Addressing Islamophobia in Clinical Practice.-
13.
Islamophobia: A Jungian Analytical Perspective.-
14. The Islamophobic
Normative Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Considerations.-
15. Challenges of
Islamophobia: Psychiatric Considerations for Effectively Working with Muslim
Patients.-
16. Understanding Islamophobia and Its Effects on Clinicians.-
17.
Islamophobia from An American Muslim Perspective.-
18. Muslim Psychiatrists
in Training Address Islamophobia in Clinical Experiences.-
19. Islamophobia
in the United Kingdom: A British Muslim Psychiatrists Perspective.-
20.
Islamophobia: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations from a Jewish
Psychiatrist.-
21. Islamophobia: A Christian Psychiatrists Perspective.-
22.
Islamophobia: A Hindu Psychiatrists Perspective.-
23. What Does Islam Say
About Burnout and Self-Care?.-
24. Islamophobia, Genocide, and Mental Health:
A Palestinian Perspective on Collective Trauma.- Part III. Specific Clinical
Challenges.-
25. Addressing the Mental Health Needs off African American
Muslims in an Era of Islamophobia.-
26. Islamophobia and Ethical Challenges
for LGBT Mental Healthcare.-
27. Islamophobia and the Mental Health of
Rohingya Refugees.-
28. The Islamic Approach to Addressing Undue Anxiety.-
29. An Early Career Muslim Psychiatrist and Her Clinical Challenges.-
30.
American Islamophobia: Psychological and Clinical Implications.- Part IV.
Social Psychiatric Implications.-
31. Muslim Youth in the Face of
Islamophobia: Risk and Resilience.-
32. Children, Adolescents, and
Islamophobia.-
33. Caring for Muslim Refugees.-
34. A Case Study of the
Political Determinants of Division: Muslim Perceptions of British Combat
Troops.-
35. Community Resilience.-
36. Islamophobia and Public Mental
Health: Lessons Learned from Community Engagement Projects.-
37.
Psychological Determinants and Social Influences of Violent Extremism.-
38.
Islamophobia in Canada.-
39. The Mental Health of Elders in the Context of
Islamophobia.-
40. International Medical Graduates (IMGs) Muslim Women and
Islamophobia.-
41. Interventions to Reduce Islamophobia Using the Contact
Hypothesis.-
42. Faith Under Fire: The Intersection of Mental Health and
Islamophobia in Muslim Student Communities.-
43. Non-Muslim Allies Fighting
Islamophobia.-
44. Youth as a Global Arab Culture: Clinical Considerations.-
Part V. Islamophobia and Judaism.-
45. Islam and Judaism in Medieval Society
and the Life of Maimonides: Its Implications for Modern Islamophobia.-
46.
Islamophobia and Antisemitism: Understanding the Roots and Exploring
Solutions.-
47. Islamophobia in the Context of the Arab-Israel Conflict.-
48.
Islamophobia and Antisemitism: An Interview with a Muslim and a Jewish
Psychiatrist.- Part VI. Perspectives on the Future of Islamophobia.-
49.
From Hatred to Healing: A Healing-Centered Framework for the Wounds of
Islamophobia.-
50. The FBI TV Series and its Counter-narrative about
Islamophobia.-
51. Reciprocal Accommodations: A Social Psychiatric
Perspective on Islamophobia in Quebec.-
52. The Future of Islamophobia.
Editors Conclusions. Editors Conclusions to the Second Edition.
H. Steven Moffic MD Pro Bono Private Community Psychiatrist
John R. Peteet MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
Ahmed Hankir MD Honorary Visiting Professor Cardiff University School of Medicine
Rania Awaad MD Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine
Harold G. Koenig, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Associate Professor of Medicine Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC, USA
Mary V. Seeman, M.D. Professor Emerita Department of Psychiatry University of Toronto Canada
Rama Rao Gogineni, MD Head of Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Camden, NJ, USA
Neil Krishan Aggaral, MD, MBA, MA Research Psychiatrist New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University New York, NY, USA
Narpinder K Malhi, MD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ChristianaCare Behavioral Health Wilmington, Delaware, USA
