Spiritism and Health - A Narrative Appraisal of the Scientific Publication Growth from the Last 30 Years

Spiritism brought many insights about life, health, disease, cure, and death. In Brazil, they are adopted on thousands of Spiritist centers, on many Spiritist-oriented psychiatric hospitals, and on Spiritist support for inpatients. The objective of this paper is to make a narrative appraisal of scientific publications in the last 30 years linking Spiritism and health. A literature search revealed 71 pertinent papers. Over the decades, the increase in the number of published papers is noticeable. These data could deploy more interest on Spiritism and health correlation, warranting its place in high-level academic discussion, with funding institutions considering address grants for this field.