By Linda Harvey, WorldNetDaily
Maybe you missed the headline that the American psychology profession has a new approach for patients who are, or believe they are, possessed by one or more spirits. These clients may need "concurrent treatment protocols" that blend traditional counseling with successful management of "unseen spirits." Yes.
But there's a catch. The patient – the human one – must be an indigenous person. Native-American patients, you see, recognize a "permeable boundary between the seen physical world and that of unseen spirits." Western therapists should try harder to honor this pagan worldview.
This breakthrough approach comes from Suzan McVicker, MA, LPC, in an August 2010 paper published by the American Psychological Association. She tells her readers that among indigenous cultures, a "spirit force" may enter a human and seek to stay. This can be resolved, she explains, by engaging in "spirit depossession." But far from the "forceful banishment" of an exorcism, here the spirit is safely conducted back to its place of origin, which for most of them has been discovered to be Washington, D.C. ( Just kidding – she did not say that.)
Anyway, this gentle exit is accomplished with "skill and compassion" (presumably lacking in Christian exorcisms) and with minimal trauma. Jesus could have learned a lot from the APA! No need to send demons into herds of pigs, none of that teeth-gnashing stuff. All very civilized, indeed.
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