Problems in the Treatment of Religious Patients

David Greenberg, M.D., and Eliezer Witztum, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 45, Number 4

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1991.45.4.554

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Practical guidelines for working with strictly religious patients are presented: (1) cooperation with the patient’s spiritual mentor to reduce the patient’s resistance, (2) examination of the therapist’s own religious attitudes to modify countertransferential feelings, (3) acquisition of knowledge of the patient’s religion to facilitate interviewing, and help distinguish belief from delusion, and ritual from compulsion.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 45 • Number 4 • 1991, pp. 463–633

Pages: 554 - 565

PubMed: 1845111

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Published in print: 1991, pp. 463–633

Published online: 30 April 2018

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David Greenberg, M.D.

Director, Jerusalem Mental Health Center—Community Division.

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Eliezer Witztum, M.D.

Senior Psychiatrist, Jerusalem Mental Health Center—Community Division.

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Notes

Mailing address: Ezrath Nashim Hospital, POB 35300, Jerusalem, Israel.

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