Demonizing and mental illness: The problem of identification,Hong Kong

Conclusions Our experience in the seminars and our study of the cases has encouraged us to believe that many Christian pastors, theological students, and lay leaders are open to a multiple causation explanation for demonizing and mental illness.At the same time we recognize that the depth and discernment of cases is very limited in our present experience. Our hope is that more definable criteria for demonizing and mental illness may be developed and that theories for spiritual discernment will be more closely related to clinical practice.Our most satisfying conclusion from the seminars was the willingness of students to think about demonizing and mental illness from a variety of viewpoints, to develop more inductive thinking and to begin the process of dynamic rather than behavioral approaches to these related forms of illness.