Spiritism and Mental Health: Practices from Spiritist Centers and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

The Self-Aware Universe (1995), Physics of the Soul (2001), and The Quantum Doctor (2004)

Professor Amit Goswami

Fifty Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

Ivan Hervé, MD (2006), reported about 181 cases he tracked for 20 years of treatment at a Spiritist Center in Porto Alegre, giving a description of their disorders and the results achieved.

“Soul Medicine”

We have hunted for big simple neuro-chemical explanations for psychiatric disorders and have not found them. (Kenneth Kendler, Co-Editor in Chief of Psychological Medicine, quoted in Lacasse 2005)

Almost 40 percent of family practice physicians (Olive 1995) disclosed that they had prayed with patients, and 9 out of 10 of those believed that praying with their patients had beneficial effects on the medical problem or psychiatric problem that was being addressed.

Almost 80 percent of individuals who seek medical care for any reason feel that their religious or spiritual beliefs are directly related to their health concerns,

A large national poll found that almost 50 percent of patients would like to share in prayer with their physicians during medical office visits (Yankelovich Partners Inc. 1996).