title: Raymond Prince and the R. M. Bucke memorial society for the study of religious experience.
abstract: The study of the relationship between psychiatry and religion has become an issue of increasing importance for both research and clinical practice. This article presents the history of the R. M. Bucke Memorial Society for the Study of Religious Experience, established by Raymond Prince in Montréal in 1964 as one of the first scientific societies whose aim was to investigate those characteristics of religious experience of interest to psychiatry. It also describes some of Prince's own studies on religious experience.
authors.affiliation: World Psychiatric Association. tpsection@quipo.it
authors.forename: Goffredo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bartocci
authors.forename: Giovanni Giacomo
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Rovera
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lalli
authors.forename: Micol
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ascoli
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D003158:Community Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009228:Mysticism / Q000266:history*; D009864:Ontario; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012958:Societies, Scientific / Q000266:history*