David H. Rosmarin, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a program director at McLean Hospital Spirituality and Mental Health Program, and founder of the Center for Anxiety in New York. David is an international expert on spirituality and mental health. He is author of Thriving with Anxiety: 9 Tools to Make Your Anxiety Work for You, Spirituality, Religion, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: A Guide for Clinicians, The Connections Paradigm: Ancient Jewish Wisdom for Modern Mental Health, From Crisis to Connection, and coauthor of Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and Mental Health and
Handbook of Torah and Mental Health. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and 100 abstracts focused on spirituality and mental health. His website is dhrosmarin.com.
David shares that spirituality is often ignored in the psychiatry profession. Frequently, however, people seeking mental health care would like it to be incorporated in their care for healing. He provides current researched benefits of religion and spirituality that can improve mental health, including ways to alleviate spiritual struggles.
00:00 Introduction
05:21 Faith
09:08 Religious engagement
13:59 Spirituality meaning
21:07 “The nones”
27:29 Spiritual struggles
39:15 Psychedelics
41:36 Mind-Body medicine
44:28 Meditation and prayer
46:00 Conclusion
New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer, and health coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com/
(Recorded on November 20, 2023)
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