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Article: Mental illness treatments.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- February 8, 2008
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* The "Viewpoint" by Stafford Betty (NCR, Dec. 28) has raised some concerns among the members of the Council on Mental Illness of the National Catholic Partnership on Disability. We believe the article presented an imbalanced interpretation of mental illness. The author's suggestion that some mental illnesses could be the result of "spirits or 'entities' " attaching themselves to people is contrary to modern scientific research and inconsistent with church teaching. We are concerned that people reading this article uncritically could be left with a dangerously inaccurate snapshot of the treatment of mental illnesses. We particularly worry that people with mental illness ...