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SOME THOUGHTS REGARDING RELIGION in words and wholeheartedly concerned with semantics. (As a matter of fact, he is so concerned with the changed and changing meanings of modern medicine and especially psychiatry, that he would prefer a whole new vocabulary and truer terminology in contrast to the laborious definitions now needed before one can begin to "talk" diagnosis and therapy.) In the same way that word- meanings, in their roots and derivations, are fundamentally revealing, so too in similar framework are "people-meanings". For example, as one threads one's way back through history, primitive society reveals that both religion and medicine were administered by the same person. The ancient priest-physician was the doctor of both the spiritual and the medical needs of his people. In our own national, early culture, the American Indians' "medicine man" is the counterpart. It was inevitable that with increasing knowledge and the demands of new techniques and skills, requiring time and study beyond the capacity of most men just for one profession, that the two should become separate pursuits; and this even more so in the specialized era of our times. But the vestiges remain, and thus the minister is often involved in forms of psychotheraphy and the psychiatrist is similarly involved in matters of religion, for both deal with human relations, human problems. As distinct, for example — and forgive the homely simile — from the barber-surgeon who in time separated roles altogether, and today neither the barber nor the surgeon deals in the same area of human need or activity! The continuing duality of religion and psychiatry is chiefly due, our writer believes, to the inquiring mind of the psychiatrist. (Yet the reluctance to wed the two is chiefly on the part of the psychiatrist.) The practical values hoped for are equally shared, however, both by the clergy and the psychiatric fraternity. There seems much validity (Continued on Page 22)
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Title | Twin Towers Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue Nr. 4 - October 1958 |
Subject 1 | Saint Joseph Hospital (Denver, CO) -- history |
Subject 2 | Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (Kansas) |
Subject 3 | Periodicals -- Newsletters |
Description | Twin Towers Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue Nr. 4 - October 1958 |
Publisher | Saint Joseph Hospital |
Date Original | 1958-10 |
Date Digital | 2019-01-31 |
Type | Newsletter, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 booklet, glossy paper |
Format | pdf & tiff |
Source | A.M. Printing Co., Denver, CO |
Rights | In Copyright - Non-Commerical Use only (IC-NC) |
Language | English |
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Title | Twin Towers Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue Nr. 4, October 1958 - Page 05 |
Subject 1 | Saint Joseph Hospital (Denver, CO) -- history |
Subject 2 | Sisters of Leavenworth (Kansas) |
Subject 3 | Periodicals -- Newsletters |
Description | Page 5 of Twin Towers Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue Nr. 4, dated October 1958, and featuring the continuation of the article " Some Thoughts Regarding Religion and Psychiatry" |
Publisher | Saint Joseph Hospital |
Date Original | 1958-10 |
Date Digital | 2019-01-31 |
Type | Newsletter, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 booklet, glossy paper |
Format | pdf & tiff |
Source | A.M. Printing Co., Denver, CO |
Rights | In Copyright - Non-Commerical Use only (IC-NC) |
Transscript | SOME THOUGHTS REGARDING RELIGION in words and wholeheartedly concerned with semantics. (As a matter of fact, he is so concerned with the changed and changing meanings of modern medicine and especially psychiatry, that he would prefer a whole new vocabulary and truer terminology in contrast to the laborious definitions now needed before one can begin to "talk" diagnosis and therapy.) In the same way that word- meanings, in their roots and derivations, are fundamentally revealing, so too in similar framework are "people-meanings". For example, as one threads one's way back through history, primitive society reveals that both religion and medicine were administered by the same person. The ancient priest-physician was the doctor of both the spiritual and the medical needs of his people. In our own national, early culture, the American Indians' "medicine man" is the counterpart. It was inevitable that with increasing knowledge and the demands of new techniques and skills, requiring time and study beyond the capacity of most men just for one profession, that the two should become separate pursuits; and this even more so in the specialized era of our times. But the vestiges remain, and thus the minister is often involved in forms of psychotheraphy and the psychiatrist is similarly involved in matters of religion, for both deal with human relations, human problems. As distinct, for example — and forgive the homely simile — from the barber-surgeon who in time separated roles altogether, and today neither the barber nor the surgeon deals in the same area of human need or activity! The continuing duality of religion and psychiatry is chiefly due, our writer believes, to the inquiring mind of the psychiatrist. (Yet the reluctance to wed the two is chiefly on the part of the psychiatrist.) The practical values hoped for are equally shared, however, both by the clergy and the psychiatric fraternity. There seems much validity (Continued on Page 22) |
Language | English |
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