A classic essential to understanding the relationship between religious experience and psychopathology.

No wonder that in the course of human history religion has been taken as an expression of psychopathological situations, even though in religious experience, as in all human experience, can differentiate what is truly his being what they are circumstances that mistake.

Throughout numerous studies and research, psychology has been applied to the religious phenomenon understood as an experience of the human mind. The same has happened with psychiatry, as an integral part of medical knowledge also includes understanding of disorders of the human mind in all its biological, psychological and social complexity. Therefore, religion, dedicated psychologically as universal and full of symbolic meanings anthropological and transcendent experience, opens a huge way in which psychopathology also has its place. This book aims to occupy a place in this broad field.