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through constant change, through a process of Finally, Strigo’s essay reminds me that my, per-
ongoing transcendence, that we can become sonal, restoration is never found “in me” but
like the God Who is perfect and never changes only “in Christ.” If I forget this, I risk plunging
and in whose image we have been created. This into a type of “madness” that is spiritual and
constant change is also needed because, created “not directly derivable from psychopathology,
in the image of God, the person is a mystery but rather supported and condoned by psycho-
not only to the therapist but also to himself. As pathology.” This I think is maybe the most valu-
Strigo writes this means that person in his who- able aspect of the article since it requires that we
leness exists in “the domain of incommunica- take seriously the moral and spiritual accounta-
bilis.” bility of the person even when he is struggling
with psychopathology.
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