Should there be a link between spirituality and psychiatry?

No

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• 1 of 17

  by John Barbuto

  Psychiatry and spirituality begin with two fundamentally different perspectives: pathology versus belief. Psychiatry is fundamentally a discipline which proceeds on the presump...read more

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  by David Huff

  One check with any medical professional will clear-up a misconception about the mind. The brain conceives of matters of the spirit in an abstract manner in very different areas...read more

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  by Tonic

  Psychiatry would not approve of a relationship with the metaphysical and symbolic (not to say concrete) perspectives of spirituality. Let us not confuse religion with spirituali...read more

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  by Adele Gregory

  It is for the patient to decide whether spirituality is an issue, not the psychiatrist. Linking spirituality and psychiatry raises questions as to whose spirituality would be in...read more

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  by Daniel Phillips

  Psychiatry needs to focus on the very real biochemical problems that a person is dealing with; a self-help group, a church, a counselor should be employed to help a person deal ...read more

• 6 of 17

  by Sandra Dapper

  No. Why? Because spirituality and psychology are entirely different. Psychiatry is a science. Methods and facts within this science can be proved and disproved. Spirituality is ...read more

• 7 of 17

  by Bob D. Caterino

  Spirituality and psychiatry, although both being the scam they are, should stay their own entity. Being similar, the psychiatric game is one person talking to you so you can ge...read more

• 8 of 17

  by Murray Melton

  While I do see some benefit of bringing spirituality into therapy, for instance with Alcoholics Anonymous, overall I do not feel it would be beneficial in a normal psychiatric s...read more

• 9 of 17

  by Fazils Mom

  Of course there should not be any link between spirituality and psychiatry! Psychiatry itself, is a godless field. The psychiatrists themselves, believe that they and only t...read more

• 10 of 17

  by Patrick Julius

  Psychiatry is above all a form of medicine, and it is based on a growing body of sound scientific research on the proper and improper functioning of the human nervous system. We...read more

• 11 of 17

  by Anne Warchol

  A direct link between spirituality and psychiatry is a consideration? No. A psychiatrist is not a spiritual leader. Without any further discussion; spirituality is not definable...read more

• 12 of 17

  by Traci Nash

  Religion always has been and always will be a personal choice. Many people in therapy have the underlying fear or belief that they will be judged. And as much as people hate...read more

• 13 of 17

  by Remy Grey

  I say no. Why? Psychiatry has always been based on medical science, based on cold, hard facts. Researched, tested and applied. And you want to add religion to this? Bad idea. Ju...read more

• 14 of 17

  by Tonya Magill

  Back in the 19th century it may have been possible to link spirituality to psychiatry. Today? Not a chance. Most psychiatrists today barely see their patients as human let alo...read more

• 15 of 17

  by S M V

  Is their a Stronger Link between Atheism and Psychiatry or Spiritualism and Psychiatry? The Link is between What.(?): Methods or Practitioners or perhaps Patients? The link mus...read more

• 16 of 17

  by Sabrenia Beale

  Should there be a link between spirituality and psychiatry? Why don't we just give the psychiatrists mind control devices! As a student of psychology, I can't think of a quicker...read more

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  by Bryan-James

  Psychiatry and spirituality together - as one subject. How crazy is this. It would be like putting a pervert rapist in bed with a six year old.... Psychiatry has never bel...read more

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