![]() ![]() The role of prayer in medicine is beginning to be taken so seriously that, in a recent issue of one of the major journals of cardiology, an author raised the question of whether every hospital in this country and in the United Kingdom should have prayer groups for patients in hospital. Since then, researchers have conducted a number of double blind, randomized, controlled trials on prayer, and some of these studies indicated that prayer works. In 1997, Harvard University held a conference on prayer.The new generation of doctors that are now qualifying has had spirituality ingrained at an early stage in their medical training. The number of American medical schools teaching courses on spirituality in medicine was only three in 1995, but grew to 40 by 1998, and reached 100 in 2001.In the past 10 years, medical professionals have gone from looking upon spirituality with a skeptical if not cynical eye, to embracing it enthusiastically. ![]() She currently serves as president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies.Ī major and relatively rapid shift is underway in the field of medicine. Holden’s primary area of research interest is the transpersonal perspective in counseling, in general, and near-death and similar experiences – their veridicality and their role in personal and transpersonal development – in particular. Fenwick’s Bruce Greyson Lecture at the 2004 annual conference of the International Association for Near-Death Studies by Janice Miner Holden, Ed.D., Professor in, and Coordinator of, the counseling program at the University of North Texas in Denton. This paper was transcribed and edited from Dr. Fenwick at the Institute for Psychiatry, deCrespigny Park Road, London S.E.5, United Kingdom. Reprint requests should be addressed to Dr. He is also Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital and at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and holds a visiting professorship in Japan, where he spends three months of the year in advanced neuropsychiatric research. Peter Fenwick, M.D., F.R.C.Psych., is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, and associated with the Mental Health Group at the University of Southampton. Mental Health Group, University of Southampton, U.K. Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, U.K. Science and Spirituality: A Challenge for the 21st Century The Bruce Greyson Lecture from the International Association for Near-Death Studies 2004 Annual Conference Major talk given by one of the world's leading NDE researchers summarizing 30 years of research - a fundamental overview of scientific findings. ![]()
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