Religion and Healing *An abbreviated form of an address given at a Conference of Chaplains of Mental and Mental Deficiency Hospitals organised by the National Association for Mental Health for the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, Eastbourne, November 1957.

into the nature of the Healing Ministry of the Church and, on the other hand, medicine has increasingly turned its attention to the non-physical origins of disease and the place of psychological methods in its treatment. It is important that there should be greater mutual understanding between these two streams of knowledge and experience. Psychiatry occupies a half-way position between these two bodies of knowledge forming the link between physical disease, or disorder, and the emotional and spiritual problems which play so important a part in their causation. The purpose of this paper is to consider some of the questions which modern psychiatry seems to pose for the Christian faith in relation to the healing of illness. The psychiatrist deals with a wide and varied group of diseases 'Jut it is in the field of neuroses that the discoveries were first made