RT Article
T1 Dramatic religious conversion and schizophrenic decompensation
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 22
IS 3
SP 212
OP 220
A1 Wootton, Raymond J.
A1 Allen, David Franklyn 1943-
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 1983
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1669148866
AB The similarities between dramatic religious and psychotic experiences have long been observed and, just as long, have proved a source of confusion and misunderstanding. Recent surveys on decompensation to schizophrenic psychosis offer not only striking comparisons to the phenomenon of sudden and dramatic religious conversion but clues to the limits of continuity between these two mental processes. Using Docherty and his associates model of the stages of onset of schizophrenic psychosis and their own review of the literature of religious conversion, the authors suggest three principal similarities and the point of departure between the two phenomena.
K1 Associate Model
K1 Mental Process
K1 Psychotic Experience
K1 Recent Survey
K1 Schizophrenic Psychosis
DO 10.1007/BF02280627