TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Did Christianity lead to schizophrenia? Psychosis, psychology and self reference
JO  - Transcultural psychiatry
A1  - Littlewood, Roland
A1  - Dein, Simon
SP  - 397
EP  - 420
VL  - 50
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1363-4615
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461513489681
ID  - ref1
ER  -