Doctor and patient. Mutual commitment (thinking out loud)

AUTHORS : Shehab L.F. | Shehab H.Yu.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Tver, Russia; Saida, Lebanon

YEAR : 2003 | Category : Educational

“… Treatment is possible only in the case of the deepest mutual penetration the psychotherapist’s soul into the patient’s soul. ” C.G. Jung

As long as a person’s consciousness is aimed at more and more satisfaction of the immensely growing and excess material needs of the physical body, a cure for chronic diseases is impossible. Spiritual improvement, spiritual development of one’s “I”, getting rid of the false idea of man as the crown of creation and that all the surrounding reality serves to satisfy one’s own needs, will help get rid of physical ailments and preserve humanity.

In the best case, we will be able to remain in our own interests, like the old Pushkin woman at a broken trough, who imagines herself the mistress of the sea. In medicine, sadly enough, excessive rationalism and formalism prevail, the desire to translate everything into the dead language of algorithms. After all, we all already well know that it is impossible to reduce the higher forms of being to a sum, a combination of lower elements.