Help: jumped on for seeking scientific proof of spiritual healing

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There's nothing spiritual going on in any of this. At best, it's some sort of counselling, dressed up in meaningless language. And I'm highly concerned about the assessments about sexuality. Regular counselling gives plenty adequate help for anyone struggling with it. To insist it is a spiritual matter is to just invent unsupported assumptions.

There are no demons or anything like that. Again, at best, this is a metaphor. But telling people they have demons inside them is a harmful thing to do in itself. I don't understand why all the dishonesty is needed in these "treatments", as you already said they are nothing more than placebo (the flowery language parts). We already know placebo works effectively, but the question is, do these treatment work any better than just placebo? Perhaps they even work worse because of the risks involved with filling people's heads with unsupported ideas about demons and so forth.