Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Chairman's Grand Rounds

Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: Gordon H. Scott Hall of Basic Medical Sciences - Margherio Family Conference Center, 1st Floor

Speaker: 

Opal E. Randolph, DO

Resident, General Psychiatry Residency Program

Fellow, Public and Community Psychiatry Fellowship

WSU, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences

Discussant: Gerald Shiener, MD

No Commerical Relationship

Topic: 

"Christianity & Psychiatry: Understanding Attachment, Resilience, and Religious Delusions in Clinical Practice" 

Objectives:

1.  Provide a brief overview of Christianity's historical relationship with mental illness.

2.  Discuss John Bowlby's and Mary Ainsworth's contributions to Attachment Theory and explore how it can positively and negatively affect emotional regulation, resilience, coping, and the adaptation of defense mechanisms.  

3.  Explain the psychoanalytical as well as neurobiological origins of religious delusions in psychotic states.

4.  Demonstrate the effective use and benefits of Faith-Informed Psychiatric Care, using 4 patient examples.