Lady Lee	Re: NEW BOOK Take Back Your Life
	chaiyah My experience with the psycho-psychiatric community is that they gloss over, completely, the inner relationship between a human's heart and the heart of God. They don't get it; they talk around it. Loving God, who's not "in the room" is a matter that psychology doesn't abide with at all; and it doesn't matter which church you find as a sanctuary after leaving the Witnesses. The book Take Back Your Life addresses the issue of spirituality in one of its chapters and in other places in the book. It has a checklist to help people determine the level of manipulation and control before getting involved with another group or religion. I do agree that many therapists try to avoid the subject of spirituality. But as a retired counselor I never did. Spirituality is a part of the whole person and I was taught to honor the whole person. I had several non-exJW as well as xJW clients who had to work through issues of spiritual abuse. It was my job to help them recognize abuse regardless of what mask it hid behind. Psychiatry will try to talk you out of all spirituality because they are strictly behaviorist; and psychology will try to talk you right in to the Occult and New Age unitarian/universalist concepts. You have got to be kidding. In 20 years of working in the field I have never once seen or heard of this. Do some therapists do this? Yes. But to paint the whole profession with the same brush is manipulative and wrong
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