Psych. PPP. Intro. & Section 1. 1 & 2. Jesus: “Psychotherapy is really the only form of therapy there is. Since all of your experience is in the mind, only the mind can be sick, so only the mind can be healed. Therefore only the mind is in need of healing!
This does not appear to be the case, for the fearful manifestations that make up this world seem real indeed to those perceiving them. So that an individual can begin to question what he believes to be ‘reality,’ some form of psychotherapy is necessary. Sometimes he is able to start to open his mind without formal help, but even then, it is always some change in his perception of interpersonal relationships that enables him to do so. Sometimes he needs a more structured, extended relationship with one formally recognized as a therapist. Either way, the task is the same; the patient must be helped to change his mind about the ‘reality’ he attributes to his illusions!
Very simply, then, the purpose of psychotherapy is to remove the blocks to awareness of truth! Its aim is to aid the patient in abandoning his old fixed delusional system, and to begin to reconsider the spurious cause and effect relationships on which it rests. No one in this world escapes fear entirely, but everyone can reconsider its causes and learn to evaluate them correctly.
God has given everyone an inner Teacher, Whose wisdom and help far exceed whatever positive contributions an earthly therapist can provide. Yet there are times and situations in which an earthly patient-therapist relationship becomes the means through which the Teacher offers God’s greater gifts to both.
What better purpose could any relationship have than to invite the Holy Spirit to enter into it and give it His Own great gift of rejoicing? What higher goal could there be for anyone, than to learn to call upon God and hear His Answer? And what more transcendent aim can there be than to recall ‘the way, the truth and the life,’ to ‘remember God,’ and what that means to you?
To help in this process is the proper purpose of psychotherapy. Could anything be holier in purpose? For psychotherapy, correctly understood, teaches complete and true forgiveness, and helps the patient (client, co-worker, partner or friend) to recognize and accept it. And in this greater healing does the ‘therapist’ experience forgiveness with him.”