Training Psychiatrists to Use and Respect the Spiritual New Medical School Funding Will Focus Training on Impact of Religious Beliefs and Prayer on Mental Illness

Daniel B. Wood, writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor

At Loma Linda University School of Medicine, psychiatric residents-in-training will soon be learning about healing beliefs of the world's great religions. At California Pacific Medical Center, aspiring psychiatrists will study spiritual approaches to curing addiction. At Harvard Medical School's Brigham & Women's Hospital, they will study faith healing and examine historical clashes between psychiatry and religion.

In what many in US psychiatric circles say could lead to a dramatic shift in conventional medical approaches to treating and preventing mental illness, seven American medical schools this week were awarded $15,000 grants to establish curriculums that …

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