ABSTRACT
Beginning with Sigmund Freud, psychotherapy redesigned the domain of the divine by raising the therapeutic relationship beyond practical conversational exchange into a symbolic message. This chapter provides a sample of the contributions by elaborating four basic human needs that are commonly satisfied by supernatural authority but that also can be satisfied by psychotherapy and by the Life Focus Community. The needs are: relational indivisibility, sanctification, extrapolation and anthropomorphism. Relational indivisibility is one of the blessings many people feel in their relationship with God, who is said to reside in each person. In the human scale the potential for hallowing the Life Focus Community relationships is foreshadowed by the psychotherapy relationship. While the relationship with God has been the guiding force for life focus in western society, it is timely to see the parallel pathways of psychotherapy in guiding attention to the lives people are living.
