Es la espiritualidad una fuente de salud mental o de psicopatología

Resumen

Spirituality seems to be a hot topic in Psychiatry, Psychology and even within Medicine. There are more and more investigations, articles, books, conferences, etc. In these fields of knowledge, touching aspects related to spirituality or religiosity, to try to determine whether or not, they can be a source of profit or damages for mental health of people. The interest in these issues seems to be growing and there is greater concern about the search for an integral health, including spiritual, to get a health model that has a more global anthropology and adapted to the actual human reality. It also appears that the demand to raise these issues on the part of patients is increasing in the field of psychotherapy. Psychotherapists should we leave this issue aside? Is there to be addressed in psychotherapy? Are we trained for it? Why there is growing interest in these issues? Here are some of the many questions we will try to answer or at least offer ideas for thought, reviewing the state of the question today, current relevant scientific publications and relevant authors who have studied about it at other times.