A Rational God?

• What did Perls mean, when... by James W. Patterson, Ph.D., 5/3/98
  
  

I agree! I think most therapeutic approaches have excluded the spiritual component of human condition for much too long. Part of the reason for this is the attempt of human services to define itself as a seperate and distinct body of knowledge from ministerial and priestly endeavors. Well. this has certainly been acomplished over the past 50 years and it is beyond time for the "helping professions" to reinfuse the concept of a higher power within the therapeutic mix when appropiate. At least half of my caseload is in spiritual pain at any given point in time. I cannot and do not ignore this fact. If you scourer the DSM VI you will not see "Loss of Faith" among the diagnosis. Yet this is precisely what many of my clients are struggling with. It is time to include the whole person in our interventions which certainly includes their spiritual sides! Ed RiemannLCSW

• Encouraging by James W. Patterson, Ph.D., 5/4/98