Challenges to welcoming people with mental illnesses into faith communities.
Patrick W CorriganPublished in: The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science (2021)
Faith communities are important to the psychiatric care of people with mental illness. I distinguish the effects of two principles of becoming welcoming communities: compassion, in which the community accommodates members with mental illnesses so they are fully included, and dignity, which rests on the essential worth of everyone.