1. See A.M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.I. Sadock (eds.),Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry-II (Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1975). A detailed discussion of psychoses and psychotic symptoms (their presentation, etiology, and treatment) is beyond the scope of this paper and is presented elsewhere: P.C. Holinger, “The Severely Emotionally Distressed: A Conceptual Framework and Potential Roles for Clergy and Church,”Pastoral Psychology 27: 236–250, 1979.
2. Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health,Action for Mental Health (New York: Basic Books, 1961); R.A. Kulka, J. Veroff, and E. Douvan, “Social Class and the Use of Professional Help for Personal Problems: 1957–1976,” in press,Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
3. P.W. Pruyser,The Minister as Diagnostician (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1976); E. Draper,Psychiatry and Pastoral Care (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965); Freedman, et al,op. cit.
4. W. Oglesby,Referral in Pastoral Counseling (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965).