ABSTRACT
The purpose of psychotherapy is offer patients the healing love of God through our forgiveness of them. A patient's terror becomes the instrument of healing when the people choose to see in it the reflection of their own hidden terror. Decisions to medicate, hospitalize, terminate, refer elsewhere, cancel appointments are often, though certainly not always, decisions to avoid confronting what has been brought to the surface in their own consciousness. Thus, the pamphlet states of the patient driven even more fearful by the "threat" of healing: A madman will defend his own illusions because in them he sees his own salvation. Healing occurs when the people are able to set aside their own judgments of the problem or its solution, and thus be open to the Holy Spirit who will guide words and actions. The difference lies not in what the people do, but how—through forgiveness rather than vengeance.
