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The Distorsions of Religion
I'm very happy to stand for something that believes in a kind of morality that's you know not tethered to a religious faith but I wouldn't go around saying I'm a humanist particularly. In my 20s I saw when I was in a very bad way um and had this kind of immobilizing physical illness which was diagnosed as lupus, later blood tests in later years didn't show anything so it was all again all a bit of a mystery. A very enlightened GP referred me to a psychotherapist and I subsequently discovered that was paid for by a charity called the cripple gate foundation. The process of psychodynamic psychotherapy is essentially the talking cure with particular questions asked