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🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Modern psychiatry tends to downplay spirituality, but in today's episode of "The Word on Fire Show," Bishop Barron and Brandon discuss a new Scientific American article suggesting that "Psychiatry Needs to Get Right with God."
The author explains how belief in God is associated with significantly better treatment outcomes for many patients, and therefore patients should have the option to include spirituality in their treatment.
A listener asks, where does one go to get the Catholic Church’s official interpretation of Scripture?
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0:00.0 | Kura Animaram, who does that? |
0:01.9 | Care for souls. |
0:03.2 | And that's classically the task of priests, |
0:05.9 | of religious people, |
0:07.8 | go back into the ancient religious traditions |
0:10.6 | of the shamanic role. |
0:13.4 | In the measure that that's been overlooked, |
0:15.7 | that's a real problem. |
0:17.4 | And that's a reason why there's a crisis of meaning. |
0:20.9 | A crisis of meaning will make people sick. |
0:23.2 | It'll make people sick eventually |
0:24.7 | at all levels of their being. |
0:26.6 | I'm Brandon Vaat, the Senior Publishing Director, |
0:30.0 | here at Word on Fire. |
0:31.7 | Of a great discussion for you today |
0:33.2 | with Bishop Baren about why psychiatry |
0:36.0 | needs to get right with God. |
0:37.7 | We'll discuss the connections between prayer and mental health. |
0:41.5 | And we'll ask why many psychiatrists |
0:44.3 | tend to downplay spirituality? |
0:46.9 | Before we get there, though, |
0:48.7 | Bishop Baren said, |
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