{"title":"Religion, spirituality and mental health: the role of guilt and shame","authors":"Ramón Martínez de Pisón","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2022.2109241","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study deals with four issues. First, several brief clarifying remarks concerning religion and spirituality, followed by similar but more extended remarks on guilt and shame. Second, consideration of religion’s negative influence on wellness and wholeness in mental health when religion contributes to excessive feelings of guilt and shame. Third, reflections on the potentially negative influence of such feelings on religion. Fourth, religion’s positive contribution to mental health when religion helps enable the healing of wounds arising due to the debilitating influence of inordinate feelings of guilt and shame.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"167 1","pages":"261 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2022.2109241","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT The present study deals with four issues. First, several brief clarifying remarks concerning religion and spirituality, followed by similar but more extended remarks on guilt and shame. Second, consideration of religion’s negative influence on wellness and wholeness in mental health when religion contributes to excessive feelings of guilt and shame. Third, reflections on the potentially negative influence of such feelings on religion. Fourth, religion’s positive contribution to mental health when religion helps enable the healing of wounds arising due to the debilitating influence of inordinate feelings of guilt and shame.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health is an interdisciplinary professional journal (retiled from American Journal of Pastoral Counseling to better reflect its broader scope) that is devoted to the scholarly study of spirituality as a resource for counseling and psychotherapeutic disciplines. This peer-reviewed quarterly journal seeks to enhance the understanding of spirituality as a core component of human well-being in individual, relational, and communal life. Leading authorities provide insights into research and effective therapy in an interdisciplinary dialog that crosses the disciplines of psychology, spirituality, theology, sociology, cultural analysis, and other fields.