RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY

Religion and Psychology

Religion and Psychology

All the disciplines and subjects of study offer the readers with different horizons, patterns of perceptions and approaches to view things in different manner. Though every subject or school of thought facilitates its reader or student with independent knowledge, but also connects it with or integrate it into other subjects in order to make the concept of education understandable. Similarly, when researchers and authors attempt to integrate theology and psychology, they aim to accomplish a sound association of the subjects in order to make the readers understand the worth of both disciplines for each other.

The current age has witnessed the integration of mental disorders in Bible; this refers to the fact that Psychology and Theology have mixed up and blended with each other to provide satisfying facts, theories and solutions. The methods of counseling and supposition in the discipline of psychology have merged so much into the evangelical perspective at all the stages that even the meditation has become one of the techniques to cure mental disorders. The Christians, who are a strong believer in God's words, are of the viewpoint that Bible contains the source of healing from mental disorders. In order to attain the desired therapeutic outcome depends, it is necessary that right type of counseling/therapy is undertaken.

Taken into study here is a book, Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey through Schizophrenia, written by Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D. This book, in its earlier sections provides the readers an idea that the twins have been feeling similar symptoms. Pamela was diagnosed as schizophrenic while However, Carolyn's disorder completely dissipated. This provides us an idea regarding the part that the reactions and environment play in harvesting or triggering any inclination or disposition towards illness. Schizophrenia is a disorder that is associated with the patients detaching themselves from their people and the surroundings. While doing so, they lose their capabilities and abilities of building any type of trust or human connection at the soonest. While reading the book, it is both rewarding and sad to read. Of the two sisters, the twin diagnosed as schizophrenic, possess potential and intelligence. In her young age, she was more hoped for and highly appraised than her sister, Carolyn. Even when she went out and in various mental institutions, Pamela won amazingly high awards for her poetry. She is an extremely talented woman wreaked with dreadful schizophrenia. She carries the guilt of JFK's death; she thinks she is his murderer. Carolyn Spiro, Growing up in the fifties, always kept being shadowed by Pamela, her social outgoing and intellectually dominant twin. However, as both of them moved towards youth, Pamela started to hearing ghostly voices and gradually surrendered to schizophrenia, thus, suffering from many hospitalizations and breakdowns eventually.

Acceptance towards Psychology and Theology

Within the religion, Christianity, there exist broad opinions and perceptions with respect to the legitimacy of psychology in general and psychotherapy in particular. One of the extreme groups in Christianity have the faith that ...