What is the difference between a confession and a psychoanalytical session?
From the perspective of a Christian world view it is unquestionable. But first of all one must say that if one recognizes one of the psychoanalytical methods as giving a result not harmful to the soul, then the therapeutic session can offer that help which a professional is trained to give the needy patient. I am specifically discarding a significant part of psychoanalysis which is built on deliberate non Christian anthropological premises and is therefore unacceptable for us. For example, the teachings of Freud from a Christian anthropological perspective are extremely one sided and false, as they distort human nature. I am speaking only of those areas of psychoanalysis from which we are expecting more benefit than harm, but even in that case this will be help from a person to a person, of a medical professional to a sick person or one lost and confused in life. Confession is help to a person from God. This is the main difference between a confession and a psychoanalytical session. In
