Psychiatric aspects of religiousness

Psychiatric aspects of religiousness have been a rather neglected research area in the near past despite the paradigm change in the religiousness research. This change is manifested in the increase of the number of research studies as well as the great development of research methodology. In this review the authors explore the most important cross points of religiousness and psychiatry with data on mental and physical health, substance use, dimensional characteristics of religiousness, and related factors as well.