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Raymond Prince and the R. M. Bucke Memorial Society for the Study of Religious ExperienceWorld Psychiatric Association
University of Turin
La Sapienza University of Rome
The Newham Centre for Mental Health The study of the relationship between psychiatry and religion has become an issue of increasing importance for both research and clinical practice. This article presents the history of the R. M. Bucke Memorial Society for the Study of Religious Experience, established by Raymond Prince in Montréal in 1964 as one of the first scientific societies whose aim was to investigate those characteristics of religious experience of interest to psychiatry. It also describes some of Princes own studies on religious experience.
Key Words: endogenous healing mechanisms psychoses religious experience trance
Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 43, No. 4,
615-633 (2006) |
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