RELIGIOUS RESOURCE OF MENTAL MEDICINE

Abstract

In the article, there have been systematized the persisting stress zones between religion and Psychiatry and possibilities of their copability in the framework of the synergetic bio-psycho-socio-spiritual methodology of mental medicine; there have been considered the historical and modern forms of participation of the main religions in mental health promotion and treatment of mental illnesses; complementarity and synthesis of sanogenetic, psychotherapeutic and religious approaches in spiritually integrated medical-rehabilitation and preventive-correctional programs; peculiarities and scales of a new mental phenomenon of «belief without religion»; there has been shown effectiveness of mentally and spiritually integrated therapy; there have been separated directions of realization of the religious resource in mental preventology and Clinical Psychiatry; there have been proved perspective directions of further studies in the field of Psychiatry, mental medicine and religion.