Posted: Mar 29, 2010 1:36 pm
katja z wrote:Agrippina wrote:Of course living in a country that was run by Christian Nationalists, religion was the only approved treatment for psychological problems.
Oh my IPU, did the doctors prescribe prayer and fasting or was it regular bathing in holy water?
I guess even Freud's therapy was more effective than that ...
To be fair, most countries have court ordered religious therapy for some crimes; specifically, people with alcohol or drug addictions are forced to undergo AA - which is, at best, a thinly veiled religious conversion attempt when watered down for "secularist" members (i.e. "You must accept there is a higher power or purpose") but some studies also suggest that AA is less effective than people giving up cold turkey.