ABSTRACT

To some people healing the mind is similar to healing the body. The people seeks the help of a 'mind doctor' if the peoples are troubled or a burden to others. The mind doctor works on you until you are able to work, make love, and, above all, fit back into your social role. This simple view might work if the values and norms of society were inevitably valid, and if they could be accepted as a standard against which to judge individual actions and reactions. They have demonstrated that, far from offering a reliable standard by which to judge the health or sickness of an individual, societies themselves can fall sick, regress, and act out primitive and/or perverted impulses and phantasies. The author likes to reiterate that curing and healing are potential and natural processes in everybody. Analysis is necessary and desirable when these natural processes have, for one reason or another, been obstructed.