Doctor Of The Soul

Which may be "doctor of the soul"?

Individuals from more different in terms of their training and their work are able to help others who, themselves, suffer from psychological problems. Carl Rogers - one of the most famous humanistic psychologists of our century - in this context, writes: "an effective psychotherapist is someone capable of being openly himself, even if it descends to the depths of his soul. Probably nothing else matters from this point of view."

In other words - although in most countries the "medicine of the soul" requires obtaining various types of documents (degrees) - the success of therapy depends primarily on the inner qualities of the therapist or its ability or inability to put his lifestyle and personality in the service of aid vis-à-vis others.

I do not mean by this that it is not useful for a psychotherapy also has special knowledge. These "special knowledge" are fed from two main sources: psychiatry, which is a branch belonging to medicine and clinical psychology, which is a distinctive area of psychology. To this can be added in the third place of natural medicine.

I well remember how I felt when, after several years of psychiatry, I wanted to stop this activity to practice psychotherapy in private practice. I thought then that the two were identical and were one. When the first patients have presented in my study, I felt incompetent and insecure. It turned out that my experiences in psychiatry, only a small part was "reusable" in psychotherapy. Apart from drug therapy, psychiatry itself differs from psychotherapy in that the design system is almost incompatible; the methods of treatment "mental", they are virtually nonexistent.

I did not know how to talk to patients, how to give them in forty minutes of this meeting why they had contacted me. I did not know how to treat the patient. When I ordered prescriptions, I felt that at this point, we needed something else. And this "something else", I had to learn it from scratch. It took me from the U.S. to know "what is what."