Religion and Psychotherapy
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SOME time ago, a medical psychologist said he wished the Church would provide a sound consulting service for spiritual problems. Shortly afterwards, I came across an appeal from Dr. C. G. Jung, a medical psychologist of world renown. He first said that the real problem of hundreds of patients coming to him from all parts of the civilised world was that of finding a religious outlook on life, and that none of them was really healed who did
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