The talk based on this ppt can be heard here: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/2018/04/science-spirituality-psychiatry-cant-replace-spirituality/ The speaker, Chaitanya Charan, is a monk, mentor and spiritual author. He has written 20 books and writes the world's only daily blog on the timeless spiritual class, Bhagavad-gita, at gitadaily.com

1. Science & Spirituality:
Why psychiatry can’t
replace spirituality

2. The mind is attacking the body
WHO: mental health is the
biggest health challenge
More people are killing
themselves than are being
killed by others

3. Mental medicine may make things worse
Cracked: Why
Psychiatry is doing
more harm than good
– James Davies

4. Shots in the dark?
Guilty of branding sane people as
insane - Rosenhan experiment
Failing to agree on what diagnosis
to assign a given patient -
‘diagnostic reliability experiments

5. Roger Sperry on consciousness
Bottom-up vs
Top-down
Eg. Why car starts moving

6. Beyond the brain
Brain is the transmitter
of consciousness, not
its originator
Eg. Prism - light

7. What reductionism reduces
Deadening of sentience
Eg. Perpetual tickling
machine for
happiness

8. A thought-exercise
Close your eyes
Look at what appears on the
inner screen
Look for the seer of the inner
screen

9. The Gita’s tripartite model of the self
Three-level existence:
Body – Hardware
Mind – Software
Soul – User

10. Missing the point
Hardware fixes for software
problems
Human problems need
spiritual solutions more
than chemical solutions.

11. Spiritual Empowerment
We are bigger than
our situations and
our emotions

12. Mantra yoga
Mantra: an inner
muscle-builder,
empowering us to
make wiser choices