PSYCHOanalysis

[Corngold]

I see no problem with the Catholic and Christian virtue of forgiveness, so let's apply it to a thought experiment.

Most psychiatrists just want to help people, I think, but I'm sure most are content to make bank.

1. Imagine a patient tells a psychiatrist that psychiatry does not cure or even help a patient. The psychiatrist agrees and admits as much.

This should be an issue; after all, the psychiatrist works to "help" their patients. Why would they admit they can't change the world or change a patient? Do they have so little faith in their practice? Or are they simply admitting that talking doesn't change things and only pharmaceutical drugs can change things?

2. Imagine a patient saying they feel bad about things that happened in the past, or things they blame themselves for. The therapist then over-corrects this by saying emphatically "no, you shouldn't feel bad!" Or "no, no, that's not true!"

Consider the irony of their telling or suggesting to the patient they are doing something wrong as the patient is telling them of their having done something wrong. For crying out loud, how is it constructive to guilt someone who is speaking of their guiltiness? It seems to me that to understand is to not force an interpretation in a split second manner. Psychiatry is twisted to the core if only from hubris and positive thought.

On the one hand, Christians suppose that forgiveness is the way forward. Forget and forgive. On the other hand, actual Catholics believe in confession which is the guilt-obsession grafted in from the Hebrews, which basically makes a clean conscience impossible as purity is dependent on constant confession and devotion.

On the other hand it really seems absurd to think the patient is the psychiatrist who might be able to see and sense weakness in the therapists. What I don't understand is an average or avid priest's faith in God, or a psychiatrist's foundation of faith in God or in their own profession.

The priest is paid by the Church, the therapist by expensive sessions and probably prescriptions. The patient is never cured obviously but is supposed to be continually changed. Imagine a priest who rarely granted absolution...imagine a brethren denied the Eucharist...imagine literal "trad" ideology scourging the various dioceses. Not good for business, eh?
I know it isn't a new idea that psychiatry was the secular Jewish atheist mockery of Catholicism. But even the Catholic idea of Catholicism is very secular and atheist.

The therapist might "go forward" by doing behavior modification or delving deeper into old wounds, stimulating learned helplessness. The priest might go forward by using psychological intimidation, leaning into scrupulosity, etc. I don't see either path as constructive or helpful: there's obviously a transaction taking place. Even friendship costs time and mental and emotional energy.