정신의학과 영성

Psychiatry and Spirituality: For the Integration of Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction

The author raised the issues on the limitations of dynamic and other schools of psychotherapy in it s application to current pas-toral and christian counseling practice, and suggested that the traditionally-inherited spiritual direction of the christian com-munity can be a strong complimentary, or in some point, rather fundamental component to the psychotherapeutic approach for the both psychologically disturbed and healthy christians. Although many authors insist that psychotherapeutic approach and spiritual direction cannot be, and should not be applied to the same person at the same time because each one has it s own contradictory purpose and attitude; the one focuses on the investigation of in-depth person world and the other focuses on the opening and paying attention to God. But because of the very same reason, the author refutes that both approaches should be integrated and ap-plied to the same person sometimes at the same time and some-times at the other times, even by the same therapist(counselor)-director to comprehend the psychologically and spiritually created being as a whole and to help the one heal and mature.