Oral 17

[O-17-03] The spiritual domain on transcultural mental care: the role of faith, hope and charity through a case study of a Latin American woman in Japan.

*Marisa Tsuchida^1,2 (1.Yotsuya Yu Clinic(Japan), 2.Keio University Neuropsychiatry Department(Japan))

Keywords:

Psychiatry and spirituality,Faith,Hope

According to the Christian beliefs the core of the human person is neither set in the body nor in the mind, but in the spirit. The three theological virtues: faith, hope and charity enact as traits of the spirit, decoding into the structures of the mind and body. For Fernando Rielo, intuition, fruition and freedom are the main reflection of this core, respectively into the knowledge, the will and the unitive act of performing what is in the thought and the will. Then, culturally and mainly on psychological domains, assessing faith, hope and charity is a task to achieve through the analysis of the expression of the above mentioned processes of intuition, fruition and freedom. How to integrate its evaluation into the psychiatric interview and treatment with the purpose of a sensitive transcultural mental health care? Moreover, could those traits be used as therapeutics tools or indicators of recovery and wellbeing? The following is a case study of a Latin American woman in Japan, with severe claustrophobia and depression, that were conditions aggravated by the Coronavirus pandemia. The patient received besides the pharmacological treatment; sensitive cultural care provided in her mother language. Throughout this case follow-up, the processes of intuition, fruition and freedom were analyzed in the context of Catholic faith. Finally, the patient succeeded to overcome both depression and claustrophobia.