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*'''1'''. Very simply, the [[purpose]] of [[psychotherapy]] is to remove the [[blocks]] to [[truth]]. Its aim is to aid the patient in [[abandoning]] his 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]], but everyone can reconsider its causes and learn to [[evaluate]] them correctly. God has given everyone a Teacher Whose [[wisdom]] and help far exceed whatever contributions an earthly [[therapist]] can provide. Yet there are times and situations in which an earthly patient-therapist relationship becomes [[the means]] through which He offers His greater gifts to both.  

'''1'''. Very simply, the [[purpose]] of [[psychotherapy]] is to remove the [[blocks]] to [[truth]]. Its aim is to aid the patient in [[abandoning]] his 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]], but everyone can reconsider its causes and learn to [[evaluate]] them correctly. God has given everyone a Teacher Whose [[wisdom]] and help far exceed whatever contributions an earthly [[therapist]] can provide. Yet there are times and situations in which an earthly patient-therapist relationship becomes [[the means]] through which He offers His greater gifts to both.  

*'''2'''. 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]], and to remember God? To help in this is the proper purpose of [[psychotherapy]]. Could anything be holier? For psychotherapy, correctly [[understood]], teaches [[forgiveness]] and helps the patient to recognize and [[accept]] it. And in his healing is the therapist forgiven with him.  

 

*'''3'''. Everyone who needs help, regardless of the [[form]] of his distress, is [[attacking]] himself, and his [[peace]] of mind is suffering in consequence. These tendencies are often described as "self-destructive," and the patient often regards them in that way himself. What he does not realize and needs to learn is that this "[[self]]," which can attack and be attacked as well, is a [[concept]] he made up. Further, he cherishes it, defends it, and is sometimes even willing to "[[sacrifice]]" his "life" on its behalf. For he regards it as himself. This self he sees as being acted on, reacting to external [[forces]] as they demand, and helpless midst the [[power]] of the world.  

'''2'''. 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]], and to remember God? To help in this is the proper purpose of [[psychotherapy]]. Could anything be holier? For psychotherapy, correctly [[understood]], teaches [[forgiveness]] and helps the patient to recognize and [[accept]] it. And in his healing is the therapist forgiven with him.  

*'''4'''. [[Psychotherapy]], then, must restore to his [[awareness]] the [[ability]] to make his own [[decisions]]. He must become willing to [[reverse]] his [[thinking]], and to understand that what he thought [[projected]] its effects on him were made by his projections on the world. The world he sees does therefore not exist. Until this is at least in part [[accepted]], the patient cannot see himself as really capable of making [[decisions]]. And he will fight against his [[freedom]] because he thinks that it is [[slavery]].  

 

*'''5'''. The patient need not [[think]] of [[truth]] as [[God]] in order to make [[progress]] in [[salvation]]. But he must begin to separate truth from [[illusion]], recognizing that they are not the same, and [[becoming]] increasingly willing to see [[illusions]] as [[false]] and to [[accept]] the truth as true. His Teacher will take him on from there, as far as he is ready to go. Psychotherapy can only save him [[time]]. The [[Holy Spirit]] uses time as He thinks best, and He is never wrong. Psychotherapy under His direction is one of [[the means]] He uses to save time, and to [[prepare]] additional teachers for His work. There is no end to the help that He begins and He directs. By whatever routes He chooses, all psychotherapy leads to God in the end. But that is up to Him. We are all His psychotherapists, for He would have us all be [[healed]] in Him. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Psychotherapy:_Purpose,_Process,_and_Practice#The_Purpose_of_Psychotherapy]

'''3'''. Everyone who needs help, regardless of the [[form]] of his distress, is [[attacking]] himself, and his [[peace]] of mind is suffering in consequence. These tendencies are often described as "self-destructive," and the patient often regards them in that way himself. What he does not realize and needs to learn is that this "[[self]]," which can attack and be attacked as well, is a [[concept]] he made up. Further, he cherishes it, defends it, and is sometimes even willing to "[[sacrifice]]" his "life" on its behalf. For he regards it as himself. This self he sees as being acted on, reacting to external [[forces]] as they demand, and helpless midst the [[power]] of the world.  

'''4'''. [[Psychotherapy]], then, must restore to his [[awareness]] the [[ability]] to make his own [[decisions]]. He must become willing to [[reverse]] his [[thinking]], and to understand that what he thought [[projected]] its effects on him were made by his projections on the world. The world he sees does therefore not exist. Until this is at least in part [[accepted]], the patient cannot see himself as really capable of making [[decisions]]. And he will fight against his [[freedom]] because he thinks that it is [[slavery]].  

 

'''5'''. The patient need not [[think]] of [[truth]] as [[God]] in order to make [[progress]] in [[salvation]]. But he must begin to separate truth from [[illusion]], recognizing that they are not the same, and [[becoming]] increasingly willing to see [[illusions]] as [[false]] and to [[accept]] the truth as true. His Teacher will take him on from there, as far as he is ready to go. Psychotherapy can only save him [[time]]. The [[Holy Spirit]] uses time as He thinks best, and He is never wrong. Psychotherapy under His direction is one of [[the means]] He uses to save time, and to [[prepare]] additional teachers for His work. There is no end to the help that He begins and He directs. By whatever routes He chooses, all psychotherapy leads to God in the end. But that is up to Him. We are all His psychotherapists, for He would have us all be [[healed]] in Him. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Psychotherapy:_Purpose,_Process,_and_Practice#The_Purpose_of_Psychotherapy]

==See also==

==See also==

*'''''[[Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process, and Practice]]'''''

*'''''[[Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process, and Practice]]'''''

[[Category: Psychology]]

[[Category: Psychology]]