Word: mental
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Religion, said Freud, is a universal obsessional neurosis. Psychiatry aims to cure neuroses. Last week in Manhattan, specialists in the "neurosis" and the "cure" announced the formation of a combined National Academy of Religion and Mental Health. Its aims: to promote the establishment of psychiatry departments in theological seminaries and to sponsor research in the area where religion and psychiatry seem to overlap, e.g., "What religious phenomena are pathological...
...matter of semantics and logic-chopping, Academy President Kenneth Ellmaker Appel. a Philadelphia psychiatrist, set the tone for the academy's work: "A hundred million Americans [the estimated enrollment in churches] can't be wrong. Church membership is helping people to live more worthwhile and satisfying lives."* Mental health, he said, is inseparably intertwined with questions of moral values, as well as with feelings of guilt, anxiety and insecurity. Said Executive Director George C. Anderson, associate chaplain at Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital: "The 325,000 clergymen in the U.S., teaching Sunday schools and preaching...
Appel declared yesterday that religion and psychiatry have many closely related aspects and can contribute to each other. No other institution has as much influence on morals and behavior patterns as religion, he added, and these influences affect people's physical and mental health...
Through the National Academy of Religion and Mental Health, religion and psychiatry are getting together to see how they can help each other contribute to "the fundamental structure of life...
...academy's president is Dr. Kenneth E. Appel, head of Congress' Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health. Appel is professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and is past president of the American Psychiatric Association...