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Let us hope for the advent of a psychiatry which places the psychic
crisis in a wider context, that of man in search of himself, a potentiality
inherent in all of life’s expressions. Psychiatry will then be able to fully inhabit
its function, that of an awakener of consciousness and an artisan of peace.
It is in becoming fully sensitive that the psychiatrist will be able, most
appropriately, to use the recommended treatments, all the while knowing that
the real cure is not to be found in a pill, but in the one who takes it.
psychiatrist and
patient are not so very different from the
student of wisdom who seeks fulfilment in an integrated life and in the
awareness of joy without cause.
losely bound friends, who
spend some time together and contribute to each other’s happiness: that of
being heard for the patient in need of love, and that of being respected for the
psychiatrist in need of recognition. When sensitivity and power unite, love
becomes a force of conviction and transformation.