Differentiating Spiritual Experiences from Mental Disorders - Prof. Alexander Moreira-Almeida MD

Hallucinatory experiences in the general population
Guidelines to evaluate clinical implications of anomalous experiences.

Prof. Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora School of Medicine (UFJF) and Founder and Director of the Research Center in Spirituality and Health, Brazil (www.ufjf.br/nupes-eng). Formerly a postdoctoral fellow in religion and health at Duke University (USA). Chair of the WPA (World Psychiatric Association) Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry and coordinator of the section on spirituality of the Brazilian Psychiatric Association.
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To know more:
Differential diagnosis between non-pathological psychotic and spiritual experiences and mental disorders: a contribution from Latin American studies to the ICD-11.
Moreira-Almeida A, Cardeña E.
Rev Bras Psiquiatr. 2011 May;33 Suppl 1:S21-36
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Differential diagnosis between spiritual experiences and mental disorders of religious content.
Adair de Menezes Júnior, Alexander Moreira-Almeida
Rev Psiq Clín. 36(2):75-82, 2009
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