psychiatry

From the cushion to the couch: Buddhism’s powerful influence on psychotherapy

By Ira Rifkin — April 5, 2022
(RNS) — Your therapist might be a Buddhist, and you'd never know it.

A Buddhist psychiatrist’s advice on facing trauma, troubles and Trump: Let it go

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 12, 2018
(RNS) — 'Buddhism has been called the most psychological of the world’s religions and the most spiritual of the world’s psychologies,' says Mark Epstein.

Can grief be a mental illness? With new diagnostic changes, maybe

By Tim Townsend — May 20, 2013
(RNS) In a move that could add to the tension between religion and science, the American Psychiatric Association changed a controversial diagnosis regarding how grief relates to mental health, rekindling a debate about whether spirituality or medicine offers the best pathway out of bereavement.
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