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Psychiatric Illness in the Clergy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. F. A'Brook ,
J. D. Hailstone  and
I. E. J. McLauchlan
M. F. A'Brook
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital, London S.W.I, and Springfield Hospital, London, S.W. 17 (St. Andrew's Hospital)
J. D. Hailstone
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St. Mary's Hospital, London, W.2 (Atkinson Morley's Hospital)
I. E. J. McLauchlan
Affiliation:
St. Andrew's Hospital, Northampton
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The pressures and difficulties of the clergyman's life are in many ways similar to those to which the doctor is subject (a'Brook, Hailstone and McLauchlan, 1967). Like the doctor, the clergyman occupies a special role in the community and is “surrounded by a sacred aura which sets him apart from his fellow man” (McAllister and Vanderveldt, 1965). Society, too, exacts much the same price from the minister of religion as it does from the doctor; it gives them both privileged positions, but demands from them exemplary behaviour and often superhuman qualities.

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Psychiatry and the Community
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 521 , April 1969 , pp. 457 - 463
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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