The spirit dwells not in concepts but in actions and real things

At first this dream seemed unclear. But as a theologian he had
remember this lake, whose waters were covered with ripples from a sudden wind, water
which healed the afflicted, is the pool at Bethsaida. An angel came down to
water, and they found a healing power. A light wind was the Spirit, that blows, where
wants. Hence the mortal dread of the dreamer - he was descended from an obscure
the presence of the spirit that lives Its own life, and this feeling of something invisible
next is able to scare the man to shiver. But my patient did not wish
to recognize that he saw in a dream the pool at Bethsaida. He would have preferred that things
that exist in the Bible, stayed there or at least were
the subject of Sunday sermons. The Holy Spirit should speak only when
it should be, but it can't be something that can survive.
 I knew my patient needed to overcome fear, to get rid of
panic state. But I never allow myself to argue with those who
wants to go his own way and assumes full responsibility
for it. However, it would be frivolous to suppose that in such cases
normal resistance of the patient and nothing else. Internal
the resistance, the more resistant, deserves attention, it is often
warns about things that are dangerous to ignore. Drug if
contraindicated, can become a poison, the operation is fatal.
 When it comes to deep inner experiences, to the essence
the human person, most people begin to experience fear, and
many do not survive - they leave. So it was with this theologian. It is clear that
theologians, of course, harder than others - on the one hand, they are closer to
religion, on the other - to a greater extent limited by Church and dogma. The risk
inner experiences, a kind of spiritual adventurism, as a rule, people
not peculiar; the possibility of psychic realization is unbearable for them. Such
things can have a place in the "supernatural" or at least, in
"historical" manifestation, but to his own the psyche for some reason, people are
with amazing disregard.

 Modern psychotherapy is generally not recommended to interrupt
the patient in his so-called "emotional flow". I don't think it
always right. The active intervention of the doctor in some cases, not just
possible, but extremely necessary.
 One day I signed up for an appointment the lady that it was painful
the habit of handing out slaps to the servants, and doctors. She suffered
obsessive-compulsive disorder and was undergoing treatment in a clinic.
Of course, she immediately  gave a slap to the head, in her eyes he was
something like a senior servant. So she believed! This doctor referred her to
another, and the scene was repeated. Actually this lady wasn't crazy,
although treat it was to be followed extremely carefully. In the end, not without
a little embarrassed, the last doctor sent her to me.
 It was a very large tall woman, about six feet tall, think
she could have been beat. So she came, and we got along great. But
the moment came when I told her something unpleasant. Mad she
jumped up and swung. Jumped up and I'm saying to her, "Okay, you are a lady, you
the right of first strike. But then I'm beat". I said it quite seriously. And
the lady immediately sat down, calmed down - right before your eyes. "To me
never talked!" - she complained. Since then, the treatment became
to bear fruit.
 She lacked male reaction, and in this case it would be a mistake "do not
to kill" her, walk her about that she not only would not help, but
damaged. Neurosis she developed because she was not able to set
certain ethical boundaries. Such people are, by nature, require
restrictions - if not internal, then violent.

 I lifted the statistics of the results of my treatment. Already can not remember
the exact numbers, but with some degree of caution may be said that the third
cases ended in complete recovery, another third were able to achieve
great improvement, but in other cases no significant changes
was not. But the latter is more difficult to measure because much
realized only years later and only then has an effect. How often, my
former patients wrote to me: "Only now, 10 years after our
the meeting, I realized what actually happened."
 I had not so many occasions when I had an insurmountable
difficulties and was forced to abandon the patient. But then sometimes, I
received news of the positive results. Therefore, it is difficult to do
conclusions about treatment success.

 In the life of a doctor there is a certain binding pattern, the essence of
which is that people who come to him for help,
become a part of his own life. People who come to him, to
fortunately or not, never entered into the heart everyone's attention, but it
people, for various reasons, extraordinary, with an extraordinary destiny - survivor
incomparable inner conflicts. Often they have outstanding
abilities, such, for which no pity to give life - but these talents
develop on such a strange and psychologically adverse soil that we
often can't tell a genius in front of us or is it just some nuggets
talent. Often in the most unbelievable circumstances were suddenly confronted
with such mental wealth, which one least expects to find among
people undistinguished, socially humiliated. Psychotherapy only
will lead to success, if the doctor will not allow myself to step back from human
suffering. The doctor is obliged to keep a constant dialogue with the patient, constantly
to compare myself to him, his state of mind with his condition. If
some reason this does not happen, the psychotherapeutic process
becomes ineffective, and the patient's condition does not change. If one of
these two will not be a problem for the other solutions they find.
 Among so  called neurotics there are many people who, if
born earlier, would not have been neurotics, that is, you wouldn't feel internal
duality. Were they to live when the man was linked to nature and the world
their ancestors through myth, when nature was for him a source
spiritual experience and not just the environment, these people would not be
internal disorders. I'm talking about those for whom the loss of the myth was heavy
test and who can't find their way in this world, being content with
scientific views on it, fancy word
speculation that has nothing to do with wisdom.
 Our suffering from internal disorders contemporaries - only
"situational neurotics", a painful condition disappears as soon as
disappears the gap between the ego and the unconscious. Who himself felt internal
duality and has been in a similar position, will be able to better understand
unconscious processes of the psyche and be safe from danger
to exaggerate the dimensions of neurosis than often guilty of psychologists. Who
my own experience has not experienced numerotee the action of archetypes, is unlikely
to avoid confusion when confronted with this in practice. And revaluation, and
this underestimation will lead to one thing: his criteria will be solely for
rational, not empirical. It is from here that originate
fatal error (and this affects not only physicians), the first of them
preference rational way to others. Such attempts at hiding
secret aim is to dissociate himself from his own subconscious, from
archetypal States, from the real psychological experience and replace it
seemingly reliable, but artificial and limited, two-dimensional ideological
reality, which is real life with all its complexities obscured so
called "distinct concepts" - the ideologies. Thus, the value
not gaining real experience, and empty names, which replace it. It's no
non-binding and very convenient, as it protects us from testing
experience and awareness of the latter. But the spirit dwells not in concepts but in
actions and real things. Words no one warm, nevertheless this
sterile procedure is repeated indefinitely.
 In summary, I would say that the most difficult and the mostungrateful
my patients (except for "pathological dreamers") are
the so-called intellectuals. They, as a rule, the right hand doesn't know what
the left hand is doing. They profess a kind of r psychologie compartiments
(the psychology of "in case". - FR.), not allowing himself a single feeling, not
controlled by the intellect, that is, trying to fix everything and brush, but in
the result more than others, prone to various neuroses.
 Thanks to my patients and the incomparable series
psychological phenomena that had passed before me, I very much
learned about himself, and often went to this through mistakes and defeat. In
mostly my patients were women, most of them, they were smart,
impressionable and insightful. And if I was lucky enough to find some
new ways in therapy this, of course, and their merit.
 Some of the patients became in the literal sense of the word my disciples,
they spread my ideas around the world. Among them were people with whom I
decades maintained friendly relations. Patients made me
to deal with the realities of human life, I was able to test and
to understand a lot. Meeting with people so different, with such different
psychological experience meant to me much more than
occasional conversations with celebrities. The most exciting and memorable mark in
my soul left communication with unknown people.