The so-called Faith movement urges people always to think positively and never to make a 'negative confession'. How does this affect people psychologically?
Gudrun Swartling is an occupational therapist and the director of a day centre for psychiatric patients in Uppsala, Sweden. Per G. Swartling, MD, heads a group practice of district doctors in Tierp, Sweden. Their research on psychiatric problems and mental illness in former members of the Word of Life Bible School was compiled in the Swartling Report.
Word of Life is a Swedish 'Name it and claim it' faith 'ministry' with connections with the Rhema Bible Training School of Kenneth Hagin. Here are several major passages from that report, which first appeared in Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1992):
