by Marvin Shilmer 19 Replies latest jw friends
Psychotherapy Specialist for Jehovah’s Witnesses
Today I added a new article to my blog showing a licensed psychotherapist advertising a specialty in treating Jehovah’s Witnesses.
My article is titled Psychotherapy Specialist for Jehovah’s Witnesses and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/09/psychotherapy-specialist-for-jehovahs.html
Marvin Shilmer
Marvin, not surprising at all!
And ... when I Googled "religions that cause insanity and murder" -
I got a site that reveals the Millerite "insanity" problem, that was quite contraversal in 1840's(?).
Strange .... seeing how the wt sprang from this cult!
Poor old Russell, bad taste in women and in religious doctrine.
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Hi Marvin, thanks' for the tip.
I however; had to type in two extra words on my browser for it to show.
"psychotherapist specialties depression Jehovah Witnesses"
And here's an easy link for the rest of our searches on this JWN thread:
bttt
clarity writes:
“Poor old Russell, bad taste in women and in religious doctrine.”
I can’t speak to the woman thing, but as for the religion thing: it never ceases to amaze me how little of Russell’s stuff is held as belief by Witnesses today given his prominence of personality in their doctrinal psyche.
Marvin Shilmer
Thanks for the information and links Marvin. Interesting that he specifies Jehovah's witnesses as an area of treatment speciality. If he is in private practice, he'd have to play it safe as it were. He may even be affiliated with the witnesses in his personal life. The blurb on his site is predictably bland so its hard to tell whether he is pro-Jw or working primarily with those on the fringes of the religion who need help in getting out (and staying out). If he's as experienced as he claims to be, he may be able and qualified to work with those who are in the religion and those who are (on the way or actually already) out.
A lot of JW therapists treat only JW's or are advertising to treat JW's. It's all about keeping the things they hear inside the organization, nothing more, nothing less. I wouldn't trust such a therapist for a hair, most therapists know how to handle the average JW/Mormon/... doubter which is the main reason so many need professional help - their personalities are being split in two.
Steve2,
You have an URGENT PM.
Marvin Shilmer
Marvin .... could I get an opinion on the link I posted RE:Millerites ending up in Psych wards & mental hospitals??
I was surprised that there was a study & a book about this.
Russell may very well have known about the instability of those because of joining the cult .... but he was interested in it anyway.
Didn't he stand on a bridge with them, all in white robes ...waiting for the world to end!?
Thanks Marvin, I have replied.
Regarding Clarity's intriguing question about Russell and his followers: I had heard that they had gathered somewhere in the expectation of the rapture and there was even an admission in the Watchtower at that time (August 1914?) that Russell was disappointed that the rapture had not occurred.
I'm more convinced that mentally vulnerable people are attracted to end-times religions rather than the other hypothesis that end times religions "cause" mental vulnerability (which is the untested claim of the ex-JW Jerry Bergman).
My view is that people who are reasonably well adjusted don't deseprately hanker after a belief system that urgently declares the world is on the brink of ending; by contrast, people who are pessmistic about the world's future and who crave certainty and miraculous solutions are drawn to the apocalyptic clarity and (delusional) dogmatism of groups like JWs, 7th Day Adventists and the Pentecostals, among many others.
