The British Journal of Psychiatry (1970) 117: 497-507. doi: 10.1192/bjp.117.540.497
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Sudden Religious Conversions in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

KENNETH DEWHURST D.Phil., D.P.M.1 and A. W. BEARD M.A., M.B., M.R.C.P., D.P.M.2

1 Research Psychiatrist, Littlemore Hospital, Oxford
2 Physician in Psychological Medicine, The Middlesex Hospital, W.1

Six cases of religious conversion experiences occurring in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy are described. The conversion experiences of various mystics and saints, who were probably epileptic, are reviewed. Some theological and psychiatric aspects of religion are discussed.

Submitted on April 14, 1969




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