John R Peteet
Biographic Data
| ID | 963468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Peteet |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Peteet |
| SIGNATURE | PETEET J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5362-1765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Moral Dimensions of Anxiety and Its Treatment
In 2025, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) approved a new DSM 5-TR Z Code for Moral Problems, defined as experiences that “disrupt one’s understanding of right and wrong, or sense of goodness of oneself, others or institutions” – i.e., of one’s moral identity. While related literature has focused primarily on moral injury, moral distress and moral dilemmas, other conditions such as demoralization, depression and addiction can have an imp…
Theological Dimensions of Trauma Recovery
Trauma impacts not only the body and mind but also the spirit. For many survivors, questions of meaning, identity, and relationship to the divine are central to their healing journey. This article explores the theological and spiritual dimensions of trauma recovery, extending beyond traditional psychological and relational approaches. We explore how theological constructs such as the imago Dei, God-images, and inherited sin and redemption can con…
Moral Aspects of Depression and Its Treatment
The new Z code for Moral Problems to DSM-5 reflects growing recognition of the clinical relevance of disruptions in an individual’s understanding of right and wrong, or sense of goodness. Depressed individuals frequently struggle with negative emotions and related moral concerns, but limited guidance is available for approaching these in treatment. Distinguishing how moral problems can be related to depression suggests differing approaches to gui…
A successful response to the second wave of Covid-19 in the slums of Delhi
The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented challenges to India's slum communities. Although more COVID-related deaths occurred in slum neighbourhoods, the 91 slum communities served by the non-profit Asha Society India experienced only one death case during this period. Key factors contributing to this outcome included the mobilisation of educational, quarantine, and preventive measures, as well as an emergency protocol that…
Handbook of Religion and Health
The 2001 (first) edition of this Handbook was a comprehensive review of history, research, and discussions on religion and health through the year 2000. The Appendix listed 1,200 separate quantitative studies on religion and health each rated in quality on 0–10 scale, followed by about 2,000 references and an extensive index for rapid topic identification. The 2012 (second) edition of the Handbook systematically updated the research from 2000 to …
The virtues in psychiatric treatment
Virtues, understood as excellent character traits, originally defined human flourishing, but have been historically neglected within psychiatric practice. Reasons include concerns about scientific objectivity, realistic expectations, and therapeutic moralism. Renewed interest in their clinical relevance has been spurred by problems in sustaining professionalism, growing attention to virtue ethics, empirical support for the benefits of virtues suc…
When Does Psychotherapy Encourage Selfishness
This paper explores how psychotherapy, with its inherent focus on the self, may inadvertently contribute to problematic selfishness. By comparison with religious traditions which have encouraged humility and dedication to serving others, psychotherapeutic schools have historically emphasized ways to meet one's own needs. We review here the evolution of ego-centric approaches toward more relational and growth- and virtue-oriented ones, before cons…
Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
This book explores the implications for psychiatric practice of virtues shown to foster self-control, benevolence, intelligence, and positivity, roughly corresponding to the four cardinal virtues of Plato and Aquinas. Chapter authors highlight the psychotherapeutic relevance of virtues of self-control (accountability, humility, and equanimity), benevolence (forgiveness, compassion, and love), intelligence (defiance and phronesis, or practical wis…
Assessing Religious Commitment in a Multicultural Inpatient Setting
Spirituality and mental health
In many contexts, emotional ailments have been considered problems of religious or spiritual origin. Historically, religious groups were often the primary providers of mental health care. This changed over time with advances in medicine and Freud’s writings framing religion/spirituality (R/S) as a sign of neurosis. In the early- to mid-twentieth century, mental health and R/S were often viewed by Western clinicians and patients as separate and an…
Covid-19 Anxiety
Spirituality and mental health
Forensic Psychiatry
This chapter represents a first effort at exploring ethics concerns at the intersections of forensic psychiatry and religion. It surveys several areas where this convergence occurs: criminal cases in which religious delusions of the defendant figured prominently in the defense; civil cases involving the right to refuse treatment secondary to religious beliefs; the complexities of applying empathy to forensic evaluations where the physician’s task…
A Closer Look at Transcendence and Its Relationship to Mental Health
The WPA position paper on spirituality and religion in psychiatry
The WPA position statement is a clear challenge for psychiatrists to recognize how religion/spirituality (R/S) is relevant to their work. North American psychiatry has shown progress related to each principle articulated in the statement, especially in the areas of research and scholarship. However, most advances are yet to be widely implemented or coordinated, so that the statement offers valuable encouragement and direction in moving forward
Does a Therapist’s World View Matter
The Relationship between Medicine, Spirituality and Religion
Approaching Emptiness
Provision of Spiritual Care to Patients With Advanced Cancer
PURPOSE: To determine whether spiritual care from the medical team impacts medical care received and quality of life (QoL) at the end of life (EoL) and to examine these relationships according to patient religious coping. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Prospective, multisite study of patients with advanced cancer from September 2002 through August 2008. We interviewed 343 patients at baseline and observed them (median, 116 days) until death. Spiritual car…
Religiousness and Spiritual Support Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations With End-of-Life Treatment Preferences and Quality of Life
PURPOSE: Religion and spirituality play a role in coping with illness for many cancer patients. This study examined religiousness and spiritual support in advanced cancer patients of diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds and associations with quality of life (QOL), treatment preferences, and advance care planning. METHODS: The Coping With Cancer study is a federally funded, multi-institutional investigation examining factors associated with advanced …
Coping with cancer
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Coping with cancer
Religiousness and Spiritual Support Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations With End-of-Life Treatment Preferences and Quality of Life
PURPOSE: Religion and spirituality play a role in coping with illness for many cancer patients. This study examined religiousness and spiritual support in advanced cancer patients of diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds and associations with quality of life (QOL), treatment preferences, and advance care planning. METHODS: The Coping With Cancer study is a federally funded, multi-institutional investigation examining factors associated with advanced …
Provision of Spiritual Care to Patients With Advanced Cancer
PURPOSE: To determine whether spiritual care from the medical team impacts medical care received and quality of life (QoL) at the end of life (EoL) and to examine these relationships according to patient religious coping. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Prospective, multisite study of patients with advanced cancer from September 2002 through August 2008. We interviewed 343 patients at baseline and observed them (median, 116 days) until death. Spiritual car…
Approaching Emptiness
The Relationship between Medicine, Spirituality and Religion
Does a Therapist’s World View Matter
The WPA position paper on spirituality and religion in psychiatry
The WPA position statement is a clear challenge for psychiatrists to recognize how religion/spirituality (R/S) is relevant to their work. North American psychiatry has shown progress related to each principle articulated in the statement, especially in the areas of research and scholarship. However, most advances are yet to be widely implemented or coordinated, so that the statement offers valuable encouragement and direction in moving forward
Forensic Psychiatry
This chapter represents a first effort at exploring ethics concerns at the intersections of forensic psychiatry and religion. It surveys several areas where this convergence occurs: criminal cases in which religious delusions of the defendant figured prominently in the defense; civil cases involving the right to refuse treatment secondary to religious beliefs; the complexities of applying empathy to forensic evaluations where the physician’s task…
A Closer Look at Transcendence and Its Relationship to Mental Health
Spirituality and mental health
Spirituality and mental health
In many contexts, emotional ailments have been considered problems of religious or spiritual origin. Historically, religious groups were often the primary providers of mental health care. This changed over time with advances in medicine and Freud’s writings framing religion/spirituality (R/S) as a sign of neurosis. In the early- to mid-twentieth century, mental health and R/S were often viewed by Western clinicians and patients as separate and an…
Covid-19 Anxiety
The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
This book explores the implications for psychiatric practice of virtues shown to foster self-control, benevolence, intelligence, and positivity, roughly corresponding to the four cardinal virtues of Plato and Aquinas. Chapter authors highlight the psychotherapeutic relevance of virtues of self-control (accountability, humility, and equanimity), benevolence (forgiveness, compassion, and love), intelligence (defiance and phronesis, or practical wis…
Assessing Religious Commitment in a Multicultural Inpatient Setting
Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
The virtues in psychiatric treatment
Virtues, understood as excellent character traits, originally defined human flourishing, but have been historically neglected within psychiatric practice. Reasons include concerns about scientific objectivity, realistic expectations, and therapeutic moralism. Renewed interest in their clinical relevance has been spurred by problems in sustaining professionalism, growing attention to virtue ethics, empirical support for the benefits of virtues suc…
When Does Psychotherapy Encourage Selfishness
This paper explores how psychotherapy, with its inherent focus on the self, may inadvertently contribute to problematic selfishness. By comparison with religious traditions which have encouraged humility and dedication to serving others, psychotherapeutic schools have historically emphasized ways to meet one's own needs. We review here the evolution of ego-centric approaches toward more relational and growth- and virtue-oriented ones, before cons…
Handbook of Religion and Health
The 2001 (first) edition of this Handbook was a comprehensive review of history, research, and discussions on religion and health through the year 2000. The Appendix listed 1,200 separate quantitative studies on religion and health each rated in quality on 0–10 scale, followed by about 2,000 references and an extensive index for rapid topic identification. The 2012 (second) edition of the Handbook systematically updated the research from 2000 to …
Moral Aspects of Depression and Its Treatment
The new Z code for Moral Problems to DSM-5 reflects growing recognition of the clinical relevance of disruptions in an individual’s understanding of right and wrong, or sense of goodness. Depressed individuals frequently struggle with negative emotions and related moral concerns, but limited guidance is available for approaching these in treatment. Distinguishing how moral problems can be related to depression suggests differing approaches to gui…
A successful response to the second wave of Covid-19 in the slums of Delhi
The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented challenges to India's slum communities. Although more COVID-related deaths occurred in slum neighbourhoods, the 91 slum communities served by the non-profit Asha Society India experienced only one death case during this period. Key factors contributing to this outcome included the mobilisation of educational, quarantine, and preventive measures, as well as an emergency protocol that…
Moral Dimensions of Anxiety and Its Treatment
In 2025, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) approved a new DSM 5-TR Z Code for Moral Problems, defined as experiences that “disrupt one’s understanding of right and wrong, or sense of goodness of oneself, others or institutions” – i.e., of one’s moral identity. While related literature has focused primarily on moral injury, moral distress and moral dilemmas, other conditions such as demoralization, depression and addiction can have an imp…
Theological Dimensions of Trauma Recovery
Trauma impacts not only the body and mind but also the spirit. For many survivors, questions of meaning, identity, and relationship to the divine are central to their healing journey. This article explores the theological and spiritual dimensions of trauma recovery, extending beyond traditional psychological and relational approaches. We explore how theological constructs such as the imago Dei, God-images, and inherited sin and redemption can con…
Psychology (16 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychotherapist (10 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Alternative medicine (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works)