Psych. 2. VI. 7. & VII. 1 & 2. Jesus: “No one is healed alone! This is the joyous song salvation sings to all who hear its Voice. This statement cannot be too often remembered by all who see themselves as helpers and as therapists.
Their patients can be seen as the bringers of a gift to them, the opportunity to practice true forgiveness. For it is the patients who come to demonstrate their sinlessness to eyes that would still be tempted to believe that ’something wrong’ is really there to look upon.
Yet will the proof of sinlessness, seen in the patient and accepted in the therapist, offer the mind of both a covenant in which they meet and join and recognize they are as one. Who, then, is the therapist, and who is the patient? In the final analysis, everyone is both!
He who needs healing must heal. Physician, heal thy self! Who else, really apart from you, is there to heal? And who ‘else’ is in need of healing? Each patient who comes to a therapist offers him an opportunity to heal himself. The patient is therefore his therapist. And every therapist must learn to heal from each patient who comes to him. He thus becomes his patient as he learns that both are one in truth.
God does not know of separation. What He knows is only that He has one Son. His knowledge is reflected in the ideal patient-therapist relationship. God comes to him who calls, and in Him, he recognizes Himself.
Think carefully, teacher, helper and therapist, for whom you pray, and who is in need of healing! For true therapy is prayer, and the healing of separation is its aim and its result. What is prayer except the joining of minds in a relationship which Christ can enter? This is His home, into which our psychotherapy practice invites Him!
What is the value of ‘symptom cure,’ when another symptom is always there for you to choose? But once Christ enters in, what choice is there except to have Him stay?
There is no need for more than this, for it is everything! Healing is here, and happiness and peace. These are the ‘symptoms’ of the ideal patient-therapist relationship, replacing those with which the patient came to ask for help.”