As influências do sentimento religioso sobre o cristão portador de depressão

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Deus, Pérsio Ribeiro Gomes de
• Orientador(a): Gomes, Antônio Máspoli de Araújo
• Banca de defesa: Carvalho, Sueli Galego de , Chaves, Arthur Pinto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Ciências da Religião
• Departamento: Religião
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: sentimento religioso; depressão; depressão em cristãos; influência da religião em cristãos
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: religious feeling; depression; depression in christians; influence of religion on christian patients
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25671

This research investigates the hypothesis that the religious feelings can exert a harmful influence on the understanding of the depressive disease, in Christians suffering from depression. From early times, there has been a relation between the ideas of divine and sacred and the occurrence of diseases; the sacred entities were thought to interfere with the outbreak of diseases, or even cause them. Primitive men, in their world view, would attribute to gods and demons phenomena such as natural catastrophes: plagues, pests, and diseases. Throughout History, there is a clear change of human perception about religion and also about mental disease. However, the relation between religious feeling and depression remains unaltered in the common man s view, throughout History. Demons, sin, God s wrath, and lack of faith are understood as linked to the depressive disease, in a causality relation. Even among men with scientific and religious knowledge, the influences that the religious feeling exerts on the notion of depressive disease can be noticed. Psychiatry, due to methodological difficulties, only recently has created explanatory models that are adequate for the understanding of depressive disorders. The gap created by this delay in scientific knowledge was filled with prejudiced, distorted and mythical ideas about that disease. Through a literature review, the relation between religious feelings or religiosity and the conception of depressive disease is investigated. This relation is analyzed, from the first manifestations of religious feelings in the primitive man his world view and notion of religion to the contemporary era. In a multidisciplinary approach, we find support in some classic works from Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and also from thinkers from other areas of knowledge. The hypothesis is also objectively verified, through a case study of patients with depression who spontaneously searched for psychiatric treatment.