Free Communication

Friday, May 2nd, 2008, 13:30-14:30 - four parts in parallel

Spirituality in Medicine

• Experience with a Whole Person Assessment Clinic in Primary Care (Sheldon)
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction in Patients with Fibromyalgia – a Randomized Controlled Trial (Schmidt)
• The Search for Meaning in Acute Illness (Baldacchino)
• Hagiotherapy, Depression and the Life Values Scale (Nadj)

Spirituality in Psychiatry

• Religious Coping among Outpatients suffering from Chronic Schizophrenia: A Cross-National Comparison (Mohr)
• Awareness of Action and the Attribution of Agency are Key Issues in the Neuroscientific Study of Consciousness (Muradas)
• Religiosity in Evidence-Based Psychiatry (Bonelli)
• Religious Supervision with Psychiatrists (Brandt)
• Are Structure and Centrality of the Religious-Spiritual Construct System associated to Personality Dimensions and Psychopathological Symptoms? (Unterrainer)

Sociomedical Aspects of Spirituality

• Effects of Mindfulness-Based Coping with University Life (MBCUL): A Pilot Study (Gander)
• The Resonance Phenomenon – about the Spiritual Dimension of Homeopathy (Thurneysen)
• Spirituality – the Fourth Dimension of health. A new Public Health perspective (Steinmann)

Theological Aspects of Spirituality

• Religion as a Health Resource in Migration? (Büchi)
• Faith in God in a Danish Hospital - Difference between Questionnaire and Pastoral Care (Ausker/Mørk)
• God's Representation and Word Use (Czellar)
• The Bahá’í Faith and Medicine: A Theoretical and Historical Approach to the Relationship of Religion and Healing (Towfigh)

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