You wrote: "Yes, psychiatrists are rare on Spiramed. Spirituality is a frightening topic!"
Well spoken, Jean-Marc. I wonder why the medical profession (all inclusive) finds it particularly difficult (I don't really wonder, of course, but it's a provocative statement).
The greatest resistances are really with the psychiatrists.
It is easier to speak about meditation or spirituality to medical doctors and psychologists. They often have a more global view.
But it seems that people who choose to act as psychiatrists develop a taste for power and control.
As you know, the psychiatrists are often used as the "policemen" of society. When somebody goes "wrong" (it means not like the social norm), he/she is rejected and the psychiatrist needs to take the decision to put them off the circuit for a while.
One of the main problem of psychiatry is that it uses repression as a therapeutic tool.
So when there is a symptom, instead of using it as a teacher, they have the obsession of erasing it in any way.
So therapists and patients think that everything goes well but the source of suffering has not been touched.
And it will return sooner or later.
If the focus is on the disease, you will never have a chance to be in touch with health.
Such a perspective maintains a regressive and childish attitude where the psychiatrist becomes the father or the mother and the patient the baby.
Both therapists and patients are trapped in a neurotic circle.
They forget to breathe and to find in their own natural rhythm an endless source of joy and balance.
From the Spiramed Internet Forum , May 29, 1997