2006-06-28 02:00:30 · 5 answers · asked by amazinglife_1200 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Hi ...
No... Since psychiatry is a science it is impossible for it to embrace any sort of mystical basis for behavior... Some may disagree but by definition science only deals with what can be observed and tested, and so far spirituality (in the mystical "body vs. soul" sense) is untestable and unobservable, and thus cannot be used in support of scientific claims. If however, you equate spirituality with emotion then yes psychiatry is in the business of dealing with emotions.....
My regards!!;)
2006-07-04 05:39:48 · answer #1 · answered by Kimberly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say yes. Psychiatry is about health and the World Health Organization defines health as; Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
The social well-being aspect involves spirituality.
2006-06-28 09:10:06 · answer #2 · answered by Dark Light 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the psychiatrist you know to spell 'spirituality'.. Jung and Adler's views on sprituality are forgotten and neglected even by those who follow Jungian and Adlerian schools..
Psychologists following the Humanistic and existential schools consider the spiritual aspect of personality.. But the shrinks as far as I know are only good at drugging people and tagging them with labels.
2006-06-28 09:39:40 · answer #3 · answered by Spark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check the lessons of alfred adler and cg jung - you'll find a lot of spirituality in it
2006-06-28 09:05:04 · answer #4 · answered by 42 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would say its a potenchal yes
2006-06-28 23:32:44 · answer #5 · answered by brown eyes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋