> I have consulted the HN guidelines to find a polite way of saying this. Best I can come up with is "What an utter load of superstitious crap".

I'll try. This is an interesting story of how the traditional pseudoscience of shamanism can meet halfway the modern pseudoscience of psychiatry. In this new paradigm mental health patients can live fulfilling lives by helping saner people hang on to their delusional beliefs.

There is no problem with any of this as long as objective reality does not exist.