ABSTRACT
In the last three decades, a growing number of studies have consolidated the view that there is a link between religion and positive mental health. This has changed the earlier view that religion was childish or neurotic. Although it is true that highly disturbed patients suffering from psychotic disorders often present religious ideation, religion has otherwise been found to be associated with improvements in coping ability in highly stressful situations and fewer health risks from behaviours like substance abuse. Science is the diametric opposite of faith. Denial that there is a difference between belief and evidence is a doctrine shared with some forms of post-modernism. Post-psychiatry advocates for an equivalency of patients’ meaning frameworks of illness and healing (be it spirituality or other) to the medical model of mental illness.
