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accordance with your inner self as well as pu- rit, the absolute freedom of His Spirit, let Him
rifying your motives of moral distortions. freely act with the moral word. “Would you be-
Love (joy) comes up with the acceptance of self tray the Son of Man with a kiss?”: this is a pure,
and recovery of love in many equivalents: care, conscious and definite moral assessment of the
interest, compassion, sympathy, truth. It is not situation taken as a whole, without any sign of
a question of accepting one‘s own shadowy si- aggression, violence or hatred, or loss of con-
des; it is a matter of constant self-purification, trol. The strictness of the moral word appears
the desire for light. Many patients report a state together with love, compassion and sorrow; all
of joy in the process of therapy. Often this fee- in the same act, as a sign of the perfect integrity
ling is experienced not just as an emotion but of His Divine Personality.
as a revelation, as a certain spiritual experience,
often not accompanied by emotions, but rather V. ‘Madness’ and morality in psychotherapy
giving a clearer perception of inner and outer There are some spiritual states in a person that
reality. Moral judgment must be love-based to are not directly derivable from psychopatho-
give the logical response to evil. The revival of logy, but rather supported and condoned by
love is essential to restoring power to the moral psychopathology. These states are, for instance,
word. spiritual unchastity, permissiveness, and veng-
fulness. Having been justified as the effects of
We can find the perfect example of the action of evil treatment by others and in response to
the moral word in Luke 22:47-53. the injustice of others, they still reveal the in-
While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, ner willingness to be ‘incarnate evil’, with no
and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was remorse or self-reproach. “Having their cons-
leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him, cience seared with a hot iron” (1 Tim 4:2) is a
but Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray way to hypocrisy, serving as a form of covering
the Son of Man with a kiss?” the inner truth about his/her inability to reveal
And when those who were around him saw what the image of God in their personal being with
would follow, they said, “Lord, shall we strike a mask, a guise of grandeur or righteousness or
with the sword?” self-sacrificial behaviour.
And one of them struck the servant of the high
priest and cut off his right ear. Often under the guise of clinical symptoms,
But Jesus said, “No more of this!” And he touched patients reproduce in their attitude to others
his ear and healed him. the wrong they have experienced. The affronts
Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of which patients force on their environment is,
the temple and elders, who had come out against of course, the effect of psychic dysfunction in
him, “Have you come out as against a robber, trauma, and associated with affective disorders,
with swords and clubs? low self-control etc. However, we should not
When I was with you day after day in the temp- ignore the state of their moral consciousness
le, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your (man’s conscience), which does not directly de-
hour, and the power of darkness.” pend on their affects or state of mind. They are
characterized not only by the deficit of moral
What is most amazing in the Person of Jesus judgement and moral control over the motives
Christ is His deep humanity with the complexi- for their actions, but, primarily, by the approval
ty of feeling and reactions accompanied by the of the malicious intention of their motivation,
absolute purity of His nature in close contact which means their tolerance, allowance and ju-
with the world with its evil intentions, as well stification of evil. There is a peculiar temptation
as His courage in giving the true names to facts, to stay in the reality of a “personal being who
relationships and intentions in the face of dan- has turned from God”.
ger. His openness and spiritual purity, the clean- What looks like psychopathology, especially in
ness of His Divine mind, the absence of fear in the personal structure of trauma, often displays
the face of death, the absence of mercenary spi- inner immorality, dissoluteness, and depravity

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