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May 1971
vJctJOns as a result of psychoanalysis
than to give up phobias, smoking,
homosexuality, or compulsive hand
wring1ng" (London,
Behavior Control,
p.
54).
Dr. London gives the example of one
patient who entered therapy because he
was afraid to drive on Los Angeles
freeways. After one year of treatment he
divorced his wife, changed careers, and
radically al tered sorne social relation–
ships. But he still could not drive on
Los Angeles freeways!
The solutions, plainly, are not to be
found in the field of psychoanalysis or
psychiatry, today. You might wonder,
then, how much progress is being made
in prevention of mental illness?
Not much . At a recent Mental Health
Conference in Los Angeles, which I
attended, two scientists researching into
mental illness discussed the fact that
little - if any - progress in pre–
venting mental illness has been made in
the past
5,000
years! Certainly, said
one, there has been no progress in the
past
200
years - in fact, he added, we
may have gone backwards!
Scientists are still groping in the
dark. What are they ovedooking, so
that the solution to mental problems is
eluding them?
The answer is simple. The key to
mental health líes not only
in
changing
a stressful environment, but more
importantly, in
changi11g
) 'Oii
-
chang–
ing your attitude toward life, your
approach to life and your feelings
toward other people. Bringing about a
fundamental change in your own mind.
Sorne Beginning to See the Light
Amazing as it may sound, a number
of modern psychologists are waking up
to the fact that the Bible stresses this
important principie and is an excellent
textbook on psychology. They are
beginoing to see that the moral instruc–
tion in the Bible is very important
to
mental health. One such man is Henry
C.
Link.
After examining
15,321
unemployed
men and women in New York City, he
carne to see that the major problems of
his patients were lack of values and
objectives in life. He found the
Bible
was helpful in teaching people how
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behavior. He found that the basic
problem of patients was thei r inability
to understand or apply moral principies
to their daily Jives.
Dr. Lawrence LeShan, former chief
of psychology at the Institute of
Applied Biology, New York City, also
sees a trend away from the non-moral
approach to psychiatric therapy and a
trend toward recognizing a positive