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It appears important to point out that not only clients
have to find hope and prospect, but also some professio-
nal psychologists simply need new spiritual foundations
of their professional activity. Otherwise, emotional burn-
out caused by the realisation of their responsibility and
helplessness, anxiety and emptiness, loss of sense of their
work, and sometimes even life, might await them. For,
“All self-seeking is doomed to failure”. It is no secret that
among psychotherapists there are people suffering vari-
ous addictions (smoking, alcohol, drugs), or those who
leave their profession and even go insane, not being able
to live next door to other people’s suffering (their clients).
There are even psychologists, (however few, but they
exist), who committed suicide. Being “in a prison closed
from the inside, with no future and no hope” (Sartre),
how can one find strength in himself to stay alive, when
on the other side of the prison’s threshold are constant
anxiety, inexistence and death? Many psychotherapists
and counsellors need not only a different look on the cli-
ents ”histories”, but also a different view of their own lives
is absolutely vital.

Our profession can become dangerous, when we count
only on our own strength; when the image of our world is
not illuminated by the light of hope and faith in that eve-
rything that happens comes from Love. Even though, at
first sight, this seems impossible to believe. And, I agree
with the author of the article that it is frightening to “let
go of his autonomy” and receive the infinite love of God.

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