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The Limits of Scientific Understanding and their Relevance for the Role of Religion in Psychiatry

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReligion and Psychiatry
Subtitle of host publicationBeyond Boundaries
Publisherwiley
Pages515-521
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9780470682203
ISBN (Print)9780470694718
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Nov 2009

Keywords

  • Chaos theory - relevancy to psychiatry
  • Controversial issues - religion and the brain
  • Immanuel Kant's 'Two things fill me with awe, The starry skies above and the moral law within'
  • Limits of scientific understanding and role of religion in psychiatry
  • Psychiatrist sole responsibility - for human species and the human mind
  • Psychiatrists' mindset
  • Religious belief - orthogonal to scientific enterprise, dichotomy leading to a dead end
  • Science and religion - seven days a week
  • This feeling of awe - seeing his place in the universe and overcoming difficulties of living, illness, tragedy and setback
  • Three body problem

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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