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Mormons and Psychiatry

May 3, 2018

Among many Mormons there exists a genuine distrust of psychiatry. Apprehensions arise partly from misconceptions about psychotherapy and partly from a stigma that many attach to anything associated with emotional disorders. Many believe “If you live your religion, you won’t need a psychiatrist.” For many, to visit a psychiatrist would be to admit emotional and spiritual failure. Mormons might enter psychotherapy with not only the usual fears and anxieties concerning an unknown experience that lies ahead…

Concern for the Urban Condition

May 3, 2018

The urban age—with all its complexities, opportunities, and monstrous problems—is upon us. How are Christians—and Mormons—responding to this new environment? This article will present exploratory research com paring Mormons and non-Mormons and will be followed…

Among the Mormons: A Survey of Current Literature

May 3, 2018

Write on your doors the saying wise and old, ‘Be bold! Be bold!” and everywhere, “Be bold; be not too bold!” Yet better the excess than the defect; better more than less . . . .  Longfellow, Morituri…

The Graduate | Mike Nichols, dir., The Graduate

May 3, 2018

This is a very disturbing film. Members of the Church ought to be warned to avoid it and to keep their children away from it. Its philosophy is “loaded”! It assumes that the immoral is…

A Reply to Dr. Bushman

May 3, 2018

I appreciate the magnanimous spirit of Dialogue in printing my essay and this reply. Dr. Bushman’s courteous and able polemic is regrettably marred by some historical inaccuracies and by a tendency to set aside historical…