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The psychiatrists, being always properly qualified doctors of medicine, are expected to be more reliable in diagnoses, prognoses, and treatments than other healers. But experience shows exceptions. Others have succeeded in curing when the official psychotherapists failed. Why? It is because the unofficial ones have quite often dropped the materialistic belief that the causes of mental disease must be sought in the physical brain alone. The psychiatrists do not reckon with a mind having a consciousness apart from the body.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 4 : Healers of The Body and Mind > # 79