The desire for immediate relief from specific problems has driven Christians and psychiatrists to seek and prescribe quick solutions with little attention paid to the whole person. These forces have led Christian counselors and psychiatrists to ignore or deny the existential dimensions of severe emotional suffering, neglect the life story of the sufferer, uncouple the life story from the Christian story, trivialize the Christian community as a source of healing, and superficially accommodate each other rather than engage in meaningful discourse. Psychiatrists and Christians have, in large part, drugged or denied pain and suffering and de-emphasized the importance of embedding the often-troubled stories of our individual lives within communal life.
-- Dan Blazer M.D., Freud vs. God: How Psychiatry Lost Its Soul & Christianity Lost Its Mind
