Jennifer Miller at Slate files a substantive report on the experiences of women who enrolled in an influential Christian counseling center, Mercy Ministries, for help. Unfortunately, that’s not what they found:

It was, and is, a place that treats the devil as something frighteningly real—the kind of approach that may work for many residents but overwhelms others with guilt and fear. In a larger sense, Mercy illustrates what happens when a hard-line, religiously oriented organization inserts itself into a gaping hole in the United States’ mental heath system. Because organizations like Mercy are barely subject to government oversight, it’s likely not an anomaly.

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