Religious Experience Within Mental Illness
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[Religious beliefs, illness and death: family's perspectives in illness experience].
The objectives of this study were to identify predominant themes in religion, illness and death in the life histories of families and examine the relationship between religion creeds, illness and death in the discourse of families that have an ill person. The theoretical framework used in this study was Symbolic Interactionism and the method was Oral History. Participants were seventeen familie...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.166.3.284