title: The messiah-complex in schizophrenia.
abstract: After suggesting that religio-egocentricity and the messiah-complex may be a universal pattern in the psychoses, this paper briefly addresses three questions. First, in general, what is the relationship between religious emotions and schizophrenia? Second, why is it that the messiah-complex surfaces so often in the psychoses? Finally, what is the healthy dimension of religiosity?
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities, New York Institute of Technology, NY 10023.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goldwert
mesh_terms: D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology