Abstract
Surveys from a perspectival model the place of the chaplain in the psychiatric hospital in terms of the multidisciplinary mental health team and its workings; historical patterns that have guided mental institutions' explicit or implicit contracts with religion; definitions of the scope of chaplaincy; the symbolic nature of religion; and the prevailing diagnostic neglect of religion and of the patient's personal agenda.
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