@article{ref1,
title="Did Christianity lead to schizophrenia? Psychosis, psychology and self reference",
journal="Transcultural psychiatry",
year="2013",
author="Littlewood, Roland and Dein, Simon",
volume="50",
number="3",
pages="397-420",
abstract="Both geographically and historically, schizophrenia may have emerged from a psychosis that was more florid, affective, labile, shorter lived and with a better prognosis. It is conjectured that this has occurred with a reflexive self-consciousness in Western and globalising societies, a development whose roots lie in Christianity. Every theology also presents a psychology. Six novel aspects of Christianity may be significant for the emergence of schizophrenia--an omniscient deity, a decontexualised self, ambiguous agency, a downplaying of immediate sensory data, and a scrutiny of the self and its reconstitution in conversion.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1363-4615",
doi="10.1177/1363461513489681",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461513489681"
}