Religious construction of a first episode of psychosis in urban Brazil. Transcult Psychiatry
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Abstract
Abstract Religion plays an important role in the lives of people with psychosis. Based on fieldwork with 21 families living in poor neighborhoods of São Paulo, Brazil, this article examines how youth suffering a first episode of psychosis resort to religion for help (including, Catholicism, Pente-costalism, Candomblé, and Umbanda) and how this frames their experience of psychosis and that of their family members. For young people, the personal articulation of religious idioms and signifiers served to communi-cate, elaborate and transform their experience of psychosis. Family members resorted to religion as a source of healing, complementary to psychiatric treatment, as well as for personal relief and comfort. For youth, involvement with religion worked in both ‘progressive ’ and ‘regressive ’ ways, to improve and, at times, to diminish functioning and well-being. Key words Brazil • psychosis • religious healing • religious help-seeking A first episode of psychosis is a devastating experience that involves the construction, or better still, the creation of a world that makes sense for the person who is experiencing psychosis, but does not make sense for others. Phenomenological psychiatrists such as Binswanger (1963) have described psychosis as a particular mode of being-in-the-world in terms of ‘inconsistency’, disordered experience or the inability to ‘let things be.’ Blankenburg (1991) defined psychotic experience in terms of the ‘loss of the sense of the self-evident ’ that nurtures one’s feeling of inhabiting a Vol 40(4): 507–530[1363–4615(200312)40:4;507–530;038906] Copyright © 2003 McGill University transcultural psychiatry
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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