Contribuições da psicologia evolucionista para o diagnóstico diferencial entre experiências religiosas saudáveis e patológicas

Abstract

This study sought to integrate biological, psychological, social-historical and cultural aspects for understanding relationship in between religion and schizophrenia. Following the line of human evolution, it was possible to identify the Distal, Medial and Proximal Causes involving these two productions of the modular mind. The four questions that underpin evolutionary theory and its practices were the categories of analysis used in the investigation. Understanding Phylogenetic History, Adaptive Value, Ontogenesis and Immediate Cause collaborated to identify the processes of interaction between biology and culture that shaped religion and schizophrenia. This study proposed to discuss the behavior of hearing voices, a phenomenon considered a symptom when present in schizophrenia and considered a transcendental event in healthy religious experiences of Kardecist spiritists. This analysis made possible problematize issues what involve the social aspects of the differential diagnosis