ABSTRACT
THERE have been many evidences in America, in recent years, of a desire to bring psychiatry and religion into closer relation. A number of societies have been formed with this end in view and Jungian lecturers have been asked to participate in their programmes. This new interest takes two forms. On the one side there is a real interest in searching out the psychological meaning of religious symbolism; on the other, various forms of "faith healing" as practised in some Churches are being discussed by psychiatrists and medical doctors. In this paper, I want to explore how it is that a symbol can affect the psychic condition of the individual.
