Reply To: Orthodox Jews and Psychology

1) I never said that the mind and spirit aren’t connected. I said that they aren’t connected in regards to mental illness. We can’t treat mental illness via the spirit. It just won’t work.

We know that depression is physical. Just look at a fMRI of a healthy brain and a depressed brain. We can see the physical difference. And when we treat depression with a physical cure, we see the brain return to its healthy state.

I’m not denying the relationship between the spiritual and physical. But psychology has developed so many physical cures, I can confidently say that mental illness is physical.

2) Euthanasia isn’t the same as suicide.

3) There is no way you can correlate incarceration rates with a failure in psychology. Do you have any evidence?

4) Really? You’ve seen patients killed off from psychotropic drugs? Examples please.

5) I believe in my spirit. I just don’t believe that it has anything to do with mental illness.