When Religion Gets Sick

Acknowledgements

To
WILIAM KELLER, M.D.
EDWARD E. LANDIS M.D.
ROGER K. WHITE M.D.
REBECCA GASS, R.N.

I SHOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION to the Trustees of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, who saw to it that I had a sabbatical leave in which to work with the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Louisville Medical School in the development of the ideas set forth in this book. A debt of gratitude is due to the staff of the Norton Memorial Infirmary Psychiatric Clinic, a teaching unit of the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical School, for collaborating with me in the development of these thoughts. Special thanks are due William Keller, M.D.; Edward E. Landis, M.D., Medical Director; Roger K. White, M.D., Clinical Director; and Miss Rebecca Gass, R.N., Nursing Supervisor. Likewise, Mrs. George Stritikus, my teaching assistant, was of continuing assistance to me in the work associated with the creation of this book.

Furthermore, my graduate seminar worked with me during the better part of the fall of 1969 in a patient review of each of the chapters, making valuable suggestions for the revision of the first draft of the book. The students are as follows: Ernest Cowger, Frank Dawkins, Franklin Duncan, Martha Cray, Herman Green, Jack Grisham, T.W. Johnson, Colin Kruesch, Donald McGuire, Edwin Nash, James Pollard, and Paul Turner. These persons are not only fine students, but they have been junior colleagues in the search for the nature of sick religion and wholeness of the life that man lives before God.

W.E.O.
Norton Psychiatric Clinic
Louisville, Kentucky
1970

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