The Psychology Behind Faith and Healing
This course explores how spirituality and faith function as resilience mechanisms across cultures. We examine what psychological processes are activated when spirituality helps people heal.
This is not about telling you what to believe.
It is about understanding how belief, meaning, ritual, and community impact the nervous system and identity.
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