Religion in the psychiatric hospital: a reassessment.
Surveys from a perspectival model the place of the chaplain in the psychiatric hospital in terms of the multidisciplinary mental health team and its workings; historical patterns that have guided mental institutions' explicit or implicit contracts with religion; definitions of the scope of chaplaincy; the symbolic nature of religion; and the prevailing diagnostic neglect of religion and of the patient's personal agenda.
D002604:Chaplaincy Service, Hospital; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D014481:United States