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July 1, 1994Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica242 citations

Religious psychotherapy in anxiety disorder patients

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MAM Z AzharSVS. L. VarmaADA S Dharap

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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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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a127d078793652519a61e1ahttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1994.tb01545.x
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