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The final area of thin description emerges from a rather surprising source: the ongoing conversation around the role of spirituality in mental health care. If systems of categorization such as the DSM tend to create diagnoses that can have thinning and objectifying effects, and if biological approaches risk turning people into bodies without persons, then conversations around spirituality reveal that even in the realm of the apparently holistic and spiritual dimensions of care, thin descriptions abound and hold hidden dangers. This may at first sound rather odd. We’re tempted to say: “Surely, spirituality has to do with whole-person care and holistic ways of viewing people.” Well, one might be forgiven for thinking that. However, closer scrutiny of what is actually going on in the realm of the spiritual as it is articulated within mental health care reveals something quite different.