From Cursed to Blessed: the Impact of Spirituality on the Life Course of 10 Brazilian Spiritist Mediums

Furlanetto, Danilo Sanches; Niel, Marcelo; Cordeiro, Quirino; Trevizol, Alisson Paulino

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“…It is also becoming more clear the importance of sociocultural factors influencing the outcomes of PE and the differentiation between pathological and nonpathological PE (Lukoff et al, 1992;Sanches Furlanetto et al, 2020;Wüsten et al, 2018). The presence of a supportive environment and of a benevolent cognitive framework (e.g., spiritual) to make sense of the PE (especially for PE not related to negative or disorganization symptoms) have also emerged as important predictors of healthy integration of PE (Delmonte et al, 2016;Peters et al, 2017).…”

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Ninety Years of Multiple Psychotic-Like and Spiritual Experiences in a Doctor Honoris Causa

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Psychotic experiences are common experiences shared by a considerable part of the world's population. Moreover, most of the individuals who report these experiences also report those called spiritual and dissociative phenomena. In specific culture and religious backgrounds, these experiences are frequently seen as a part of normal human experiences, usually called mediumship. We report a case of a famous Brazilian medium with 90 years of experiencing psychotic-like, dissociative and/or spiritual experiences, but coped well with the experiences and never sought psychiatric or psychological assistance. The medium received several honorific prizes, such as doctor honoris causa from different institutions, published more than 200 books, and ran a nonprofit organization that takes care of 5000 people daily. Finally, we review the literature on this topic and stress the urge for more research aiming to distinguish pathological and nonpathological psychotic experiences to avoid overmedicalization and iatrogenic treatments.

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Stress, Anxiety, Depression and suicidal ideation among people with spiritist engagement before and during COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in the state of Ceará /Brazil

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Macena³

2023

Rev. Car. Cien. Soc.

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Mental disorders are prevalent in Brazil and demand psychic care, whether medical or not. Although the scarcity of research, spiritism seems to attract people with mental disorders. This cross-sectional investigation encompassed 848 residents at Ceará/Brazil and aimed to estimate the prevalence of stress, anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation among people with some Level of Spiritist Engagement (LSE). Significant data collected online during the pandemic have shown high prevalence of stress (29,1%), anxiety (29,5%), depression (30,6%) and suicide risk, mainly regular (63,4%), but reaching to 20,0% to high and very high. Very low LSE increased (20,3% to 28,3%), if compared before and during the pandemic and high LSE (12,6% to 5,5%) and very high (4,7% to 3,0%) lowered. This prevalence was seen in women (72,1%) aged between 35 and 54 yrs. (48,6%), white (48,7%), married (58,6%), with children (66,5%), post-graduated (55,0%), with an income greater than R$ 5.200 (49,1%) and spiritist (78,8%), with high attendance at the spiritist centre during the pandemic (63,6% once a week or more). Unemployment (29,0%), personal diseases (20,7%) and relative’s diseases (35,8%) were often the causes of suffering and COVID-19 caused /worsened pain due to mourning (38,0%), licit drug abuse (58,1%) and illicit (44,4%), suffered violence (33,8%) and self-inflicted violence (56,1%). Psychiatric care decreased during the pandemic (24,3% vs 17,7%), however, anxiety disorders raised (75,6% vs 78,4%), the obsessive-compulsive disorder (6,3% vs 7,8%), bipolar disorder (5,6% vs 6,9%), and the use of 2 or more psychiatric drugs increased (39,1% vs 42,0%). Spiritism has shown to be an attractive religion for persons with severe mental disease, mainly, suicidal ideation. During COVID-19 LSE lowered, mental health and psychic care worsened, which might be linked to a high prevalence of these mental disorders in this population.

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From Cursed to Blessed: the Impact of Spirituality on the Life Course of 10 Brazilian Spiritist Mediums

Cited by 2 publications

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Ninety Years of Multiple Psychotic-Like and Spiritual Experiences in a Doctor Honoris Causa

Ninety Years of Multiple Psychotic-Like and Spiritual Experiences in a Doctor Honoris Causa

Stress, Anxiety, Depression and suicidal ideation among people with spiritist engagement before and during COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in the state of Ceará /Brazil

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