I am a moral therapist.
Dr. Thomas Szasz was a certified psychotherapist, and called it mostly a swindle. The problem was not mental illness, but moral illness, he insisted. While I appreciate the massive and necessary clarification he offered regarding how to help folks with neuroses and psychoses, I find he still too often represented a broken morality.
Most of the books I write are aimed at reclaiming the original moral frame of reference revealed by God. I contend that a critical element in understanding our universe is the very real moral fabric woven into creation. Creation itself is morally aware in the sense that those who live morally will receive support that is not granted to others. The entire universe recognizes your moral goodness and responds to your presence. We might have to explain how it works, but I can’t possibly prove it to those who reject it. Nor can they disprove it.
When you commit to a morally upright life, things change. They change inside you and they change around you, both in your perception and in a literal sense independent of what you perceive. The difficulty is getting hold of the right moral system. Western Christianity is pretty messed up on this question because it’s Western.
Still, there’s not much point in adding my claim to be a moral therapist to my CV. It’s tough enough getting a hearing on much of anything without complicating things.
