In this article, the author has discussed psychiatry from the viewpoint of religion or the religious studies as one kind of healing instead of looking at religion from the viewpoint of psychiatry. Psychiatry gives us recovery from diseases of mind but religion gives us healing across a wider range of activities, for example, the work of a clinical chaplain after a big disaster, terminal care, or prevention of suicide. Futhermore, religion gives us culturally-shared healing. The author uses the episode of exorcism in a small German village 170 years ago as an example. This episode initially gives healing and faith revival only to people in the village, but then this is shared in the western Christian world, and finally influences the stream of thought in the German intellectual world. The author considers this episode a prime example of how religion can affect a wider area of healing than psychiatry. In the same way as medicine, psychiatry gives people a means to help themselves in ordinary life whereas religion gives a deeper healing; a healing related to the meaning of life. The author concludes that psychiatry should align the roles of healing according to this demarcation.
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