Psychological Problems and Pastoral Care
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Her warning against telling the depressive "to pull himself together" or "humouri0^ the paranoid is still necessary in some quarters, although many points mention should already be known to an experienced parish priest. In obsessive illness aI\ reactive depression, the minister can play a most useful part in giving a Pafie{? hearing, comfort and re-assurance. "Anxiety-prone" seems a most timely substitu for the label "neurotic", and will help to erase yet another unfortunate misapprehe ( sion from the public mind. The Christian minister will frequently come face to fai with the problem of psychopathic biehaviour in youth club, moral welfare work a ^ generally in parish life. The solution presents a major problem to both minister a!l
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