How would a psychiatrist define "Christianity"?

Question

would it be as "a cult" or what?

Answer 1

As a religion.

Answer 2

Many might consider it their faith.
It is not an area that Psychiatry is all that bothered with. The definition of a delusion consists of a belief that is:
1. Firmly held.
2. Demonstrably false.
3. Not culturally sanctioned.
This means that Christianity and Santa are off the checklist.
A psychiatrist might be involved if a person actually believed they were Jesus Himself. This is pretty common. At these times it is not hard to tell faith apart from mania. For more obscure religions a psychiatrists might ask the equivalent of a priest if the behaviour and beliefs in question were normal for that faith.

Answer 3

I would say its being christian helps you live life within moral boundaries and gives you comfort and strength. believing in God can give you amazing strength and inner peace in your life, so how can that be a bad thing. It can be seen as a cult I suppose but its def the largest one in the world and the longest, so it can't be bad, if the sole purpose of the religion is to love thy neighbour and to turn the other cheek when someone does you wrong, rather than seek revenge. So its def a cult that i am proud to be a member of.

Answer 4

I think it has been said that the physiology of the human brain is wired to worship some kind of deity. So I guess that some psychiatrists (atheists) would believe that Christianity is some kind of design defect. Christian psychiatrists however, would probably understand that if there is a function in all human brains to worship God, that probably is one of the more convincing arguments of His existence.

Answer 5

As a religion and they won't be able to define it or explain it more.

Answer 6

As a set fanatical of religious deals