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Yes there should not only be a link between spirituality and Psychiatry, but each field should be made to understnd how it relates to the other. It is a soul based problem that both deal in and each is necessary to the other. In other words what concerns one concerns the other. Psychiatric problems often are, in reality, spiritual problems, and many problems thought to be merely spiritual are in need of psychiatric help.

The soul and the mind and the body cannot be separated. When one is out of order, all suffer. A good represenative of this is a Catholic Friar, Fr. Benedict Groshell. He can be seen each Sunday evening on EWTN at 7 pm.

Also he has written numerous book on religion, spirituality and psychiatry. He is a psychologist as well as a very holy man who knows the ins and outs of what makes humanity tick. Some he agrees with and some he does not, but listening to him we have no doubt as to how much he respects those he sets out to help and to those who may think differently.

Watch his program and read some of his books and see if you do not agree that the world is kind of mixed up and needs a little help now and then. He has spent a lifetime straightening out mankind's kinks, or attempting to. His spirituality comes from his knowing from whence comes his help.

Psychiatry has come a long way from when it was only seen as something apart from religion, and religion has made into dealing with psychiatric necessities in ways hitherto unknown. Anything that causes the mind to become depressive and ill at ease and unable to cope with reality needs whatever influence and helps available to correct itself and affect a balance.

Psychiatry is more attuned into science and will be more concerned with the chemical reactions of the body and will seek to find what is causing the problem. They do not see the body and the mind as separate entities but as a whole composite working together. Thus whatever is lacking in good social concepts that religion deals in is also in line with the search for a healing. Together, good psychiatrists that understand religious principles that guide and nurture the human mind and Creation oriented ministers and priests that understand and applaud the role of science in healing indeed must work together in healing sick and ailing minds.

This is easy to say, but in practice it still may be more in the theory stage than being the normal way mental illness is dealt with on a day to day basis. Hopefully, it will be a way of the future and will gradually grab te attention of medical schools and seminaries worldwide.

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