There are many questions in mind, mental power spirit and soul.
It is the psychiatrist's duty to study the way how the mind works and how to help it to become mentally healthy and it is the duty of the minister of religion how to help men to be spiritually healthy.
The region was originally intended for healing service. There are obvious stories in the Bible that the diseased men and women were cured by Jesus Christ. Psychiatry today is not confined to mental hospital.
It was reached out as far as every aspect of human behavior. If one turns toward the present day interrelationships between psychiatry and religion, one wonders why the Church has been hesitant to accept and utilize many of the insights of modern psychiatry.
In life, the peaks decide the meaningfulness of the life. This is one of the bases of religious philosophy of psychotherapy.
We can help the patient to see the value that has not yet been used, and the value which partially destroyed can be preserved.
In experiences with religious groups and healing services there is contact with forces which have helped people to achieve their personality in the direction of health. Psychiatrist should have a sympathetic understanding of the religious way of thinking and feeling and be ready to use these resources.
Ninety per cent of the Japanese seems to be belonged to Buddhists. Buddhists seems to be decreasing in number in Japan.
There are many young priests with earnest and passion in a field of the Buddhism.
But there seems to be difficult questions to reform in consequence of the tradition and the convention.
On the contrary, many clergymen of Christian religion come to Japan from foreign countries and are preaching Christian love and devotion, without economic standpoints but with refined theories.
The psychiatric treatment agrees in principle wirh scientific standpoints.
Accordingly philosophic and religious standpoints should be secondary, complementary and additional.
It is the very duty for the preachment of a priest to be obeyed with Doctor's idea and experience under a management of Doctors in the mental hospital.
If we have bitter complaints against the preachment, we are entitled to reject it.
