Religious Compulsions and the Spectrum Concept of Psychopathology

Hoffnung, Robert J.; Aizenberg, Dov; Hermesh, Hagai; Munitz, Hanan

doi:10.1159/000284587

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“…Similarly, symptoms may be colored with religious themes, such as hallucinations containing mystical elements (Bilu & Witztum, 1993;Greenberg & Brom, 2001;Witztum, Greenberg, & Buchbinder, 1990). Furthermore, Orthodox Jews may experience obsessions or compulsions that relate to observance of Jewish laws of purity, prayer, or dietary requirements (Bilu & Witztum, 1993;Burt & Rudolph, 2000;Greenberg & Witztum, 1994b;Hoffnung, Aizenberg, Hermesh, & Munitz, 1989). It can thus be daunting for someone not multiculturally competent to differentiate normative religious practice from aberrant behavior.…”

Section: Barriers To Multicultural Competencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Multicultural Counseling and the Orthodox Jew

Schnall

2006

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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The cultural diversity literature largely ignores the effects of religion, and especially Judaism, on counseling and psychotherapy. The author reviews the meager and mostly anecdotal accounts relating to Orthodox Jews in the literature of several related disciplines, including counseling, social work, psychology, and psychiatry. The objective is to identify the barriers, institutional and personal, that must be overcome before the Orthodox Jew can receive adequate mental health care and to suggest recommendations for clinical practice.

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Multicultural Counseling and the Orthodox Jew

Schnall

2006

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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“…On the other hand, religious obsessions are common, more so when the variety of obsessions experienced is greater, but that they are not related to the severity of other OCD symptoms, suggesting that religious obsessions are an embellishment of disorder rather than a determinant [21]. Religious aspects of OCD have also been noted by authors who study observant Orthodox Jews [20,22], and some Catholics [23]. The frequency with which different OCD themes played out in life's secular and religious spheres may vary with the intensity of religious observance within cultural groups.…”

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confidence: 87%

Obsessive-Compulsive Cognitions, Symptoms and Religiousness in an Iranian Population

Shams¹

2013

IJCM

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Individual differences in obsessive-compulsive (OC) behavior in various cultures appear to be associated with religiosity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of religion in OC symptoms and cognitions in distinctly low and high religious groups from a normal community sample of 119 Iranian Muslims. Specifically, we compared the two groups on OC cognitions and symptoms, and we examined the correlations between the cognitive and symptom measures within each group. There was a trend for the high religious group to produce greater scores than those in the low religious group on the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (OBQ) subscale of threat overestimation and responsibility. Furthermore, participants that were more religious achieved significantly higher scores on the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity and on its Fear of God subscale. Although a number of significant correlations were observed between OBQ and Padua Inventory total and subscale scores, particularly in the low religious group, there was no conclusive relationship between religiosity and OC behavior and obsessional beliefs. Religion appears to be one more arena where OC symptoms expressed, rather than being a determinant of the disorder.

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“…Israelites not wearing garments made from two different kinds of material (Hoffnung et al, 1989). The development of information technology (in this case, writing) is associated with novel, speculative attempts at ethical prescriptives.…”

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Ethics, Astrobiology & Machine Life: Ethical Considerations for Living Organisms Found Off-Planet or Created: Ideas from Astrobiologists and Computer Scientists

Helman¹

2019

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Prudence demands a pre-contact appraisal of ethical requirements towards living organisms as planetary science and astrobiology continue to move forward. Likewise, advances in artificial intelligence may mean that it will be necessary to have ethical guidelines in place for machine life. A novel framework for studying complementary ethical perspectives is presented along with results obtained by questionnaire and discussion with astrobiologists and computer scientists currently working in these areas. Outcomes include promoting the work of these professionals and their self-reflection, plus recommendations for policy-makers and relevant lesson plans for the classroom, plus the following inferences: Ethical perspectives based on personal, social, cultural, ecological, or quantitative themes may be orthogonal to each other. Moreover, psychometric analysis can be applied in a way that divides people into groups, and this analysis may create further social division. Technological issues such as the development of autonomous machines or discovering extraterrestrial life forms come with a responsibility that is parallel to the care that creating offspring engenders—and a more global discussion is warranted. Notwithstanding, innovation in information technology is associated with a flowering of imaginative ethical considerations that predate some of the technologies that they address. These imaginative ethics may become superfluous with time, whereas innovations in technology that impact the physical environment more directly often predate the development of relevant ethics. These relevant ethics address challenges only in hindsight. Thus, machine life and extraterrestrial life are likely to have different ethical trajectories.

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Religious Compulsions and the Spectrum Concept of Psychopathology

Cited by 15 publications

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Multicultural Counseling and the Orthodox Jew

Multicultural Counseling and the Orthodox Jew

Obsessive-Compulsive Cognitions, Symptoms and Religiousness in an Iranian Population

Ethics, Astrobiology & Machine Life: Ethical Considerations for Living Organisms Found Off-Planet or Created: Ideas from Astrobiologists and Computer Scientists

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Cited by 15 publications

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Multicultural Counseling and the Orthodox Jew

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Obsessive-Compulsive Cognitions, Symptoms and Religiousness in an Iranian Population

Ethics, Astrobiology &amp; Machine Life: Ethical Considerations for Living Organisms Found Off-Planet or Created: Ideas from Astrobiologists and Computer Scientists

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