CHILD PSYCHIATRY AND RELIGION

Abstract

Up to a generation ago, perhaps even more recently, my audience might well expect the topic Child Psychiatry and Religion to be expressed as Child Psychiatry vs. Religion or as an attack of one upon the other. Today most of us have came to understand that the two can live together in the same world. What is more important is that a number of workers from both sides have begun to work together. Therefore this is no longer a matter of a 'hot" or even a "cold" war between two opposed factions, but rather an approach of two groups with overlapping memberships to a number of common goals. Certainly it would be both premature and in- correct to imply that all churchmen and all child psychiatrists agree about all goals-they don't even do that with each other. Nor would it be true to state that they would agree about many methods of approaching these goals.