2007-03-27 16:33:50 · 13 answers · asked by strpenta 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion is given a pass in psychiatry. Even hearing voices is not considered a mental illness when the voice is from "God."
Unless the voice is a command telling the patient to commit a crime. At that point, it is seen as a hallucination.
Religion is so culturally ingrained, it's difficult to describe it as abnormal.
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2007-03-27 16:39:24 · answer #1 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but in Christianity, psychiatry is seen as playing with someones mind.
2007-03-27 23:41:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It hardly matters how psychiatry views religion since psychiatry is science while religion is supernatural, and the supernatural lies completely outside the purview of science.
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2007-03-27 23:39:57 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope ... if it is than some of the followers like Billy Graham, Mother Teresa, James Dobson, James Robison and the thousands of other missionaries of God who go around feeding the hungry and clothing the poor are figments of our imaginations.
2007-03-27 23:42:45 · answer #4 · answered by me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most psychiatrists actually follow Christianity, at least in America. Prayer does release a chemical associated with schizophrenia, though.
2007-03-27 23:38:58 · answer #5 · answered by juhsayngul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is how I see it.
2007-03-27 23:39:29 · answer #6 · answered by Alex 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
in psychiatry and in no psychiatry as well
2007-03-27 23:39:37 · answer #7 · answered by alberto k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should ask some of the hundreds of Christian pyschiatrists out there. That is when you're having your next visit.
2007-03-27 23:38:39 · answer #8 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
As long as the conversation is one sided its no big deal.
When the person says God told me to do that or Jesus says I should do this. Then you need to worry.
2007-03-27 23:38:20 · answer #9 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Hopefully, else there's no hope for medicine.
2007-03-27 23:37:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋