Some people still see an almost unbridgeable chasm between psychiatrist and pastor. When driven to one or the other, they expect something different from each. An individual's attitude to religion and psychiatry, his personal theology, the nature of his problem, and his relationship to pastor and doctor will de termine his choice between the two.1 Obviously a person with paranoid schizophrenic tendencies would benefit most from psychiatry, while someone with a personal problem rising from a deep sense of actual guilt might better get help from a clinically-oriented pastor. The gap between pastor and psychiatrist is not really so great. Both psy chiatry and religion deal with "health" in the broader sense of the word. Both are concerned with "the mature man." Both are aware of illness?psychogenic and physiogenic. Both seek ways to bring a person to wholeness and health, and both live in a dependently-creative relationship with each other. Often a psychiatrist and a clergyman will agree to work with the same person in a complementary manner using different approaches. A doctor and a minister may both be trained to assist individuals with particular emotional problems. Because men from these two related disciplines work so closely