Vaillant's Argument

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Vaillant the Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard. He has studied the behaviors of adults recovering from drugs and other addictions for many years. Vaillant is a very famous researcher and has great respect in the area. In “Psychiatry, Religion, Positive Emotions and Spirituality” published in the scientific Asian Journal of Psychiatry, Vaillant’s goal is to “argue that spirituality is not about ideas, sacred texts and theology. Rather, spirituality is all about emotion and social connection that are more dependent on the limbic system than the cortex.”(1) In his attempt to prove this true Vaillant uses ethology and neuroscience. Vaillant has a little bias in his article because he is attempting to prove his preconceived

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