Let us now understand the self and its dimensions, so that we can understand the dimensions of health. As practicing doctors, we may believe that we are the healers of the body (body-self). We do not consider the mind and psychiatry as a part of the undergraduate medical education. We are further fragmented into different super-specialists of the body such as cardiologist, pulmonologist, gastroenterologist, and neurologist, by attaining expertise in the individual systems with relative negligence of the "totality of the self of the patient." WHO defines health as, "The state of complete physical, mental and social well-being of an individual and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. 2,3 The well-being of people is the goal of health systems according to this definition. Being behavioral experts, we know how mind is shaping, how mind is disrupted, and the different approaches used by pharmacological and nonpharmacological means to correct this disturbed mind. The psychiatrist today makes every effort to treat people who are mentally ill and bring them from extreme illness to near-normal condition. We also seek to take advantage of recent psychiat

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Bio-psycho-socio-spiritual approach is the basis for CPT. In the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual approach hierarchy, spirituality takes the top place in the triangle and is effecting the functioning of all other lower levels in a bidirectional way. Spirituality is “an indi-vidual’s search for ultimate meaning of life through participation in religion and through a belief in God, family, nature, rational-ism, humanism and the arts”. All these factors can influence the patient’s health both in illness and wellness and interact with one another Biological psychiatry is good at addressing illness, but, not addressing wellness. So, psychiatry should integrate spiritual methods to help the client to promote fulfillment, happiness, meaning of life, joy, character growth. Gayatri mantra is going to give the awareness of dynamics of relatively narrow identities to broad global human identities, i.e., evolving from ‘I’ to ‘We’. CPT is a comprehensive approach in prevention of recurrence of psychiatric disorders. Here we present few case studies and observations by using gayatri mantra for psychotic disorders.