Religious psychotherapy in anxiety disorder patients

1994/07/01 by M. Z. Azhar, M Z Azhar, S. L. Varma +2 · 10 citations
Social Sciences · Psychology · Medicine · #Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology #Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions #Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1994.tb01545.x

Abstract

Religious patients with generalized anxiety disorder were given religious psychotherapy in addition to supportive psychotherapy anxiolytic drugs. Those receiving religious psychotherapy showed significantly more rapid improvement in anxiety symptoms than those who received supportive psychotherapy and drugs only. Thus, religious patients may require a different form of psychotherapy.

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