Modern society difficulties with psychological disorders derive from the following presumption: the interference with the individual’s functioning while suffering from mental disorder, could lead to an inability to be a productive and active member of society. As psychological problem gets complicated, the individual could lose not only his ability to interact with the social reality but could lose his sense of self. This lost worsen as an alternative realm of emotional arena takes over when the individual suffers severe mental illness. For example: client with severe depression with the development of his disorder loses ability to work, engage in interpersonal relationship etc. As his depression grows understanding and grasping reality, replaced by different world-view. The individual in this case draws back into grey and morbid existence as described in William Styron’s Darkness Visible (1995).

Through the development of psychological interventions, one of the main tools used is speech therapy.  The individual viewed trapped in his anxiety and misery that does enable him to be free, as he can be, according to the modern dogma. In other words, abnormality is obstacle to personal freedom, that society offers. The individual perceived to be passive in relation to his mental disorder due to the dichotic nature of body and mind. Mental disorder viewed as intrusive to the individual. The feeling of being incapacitated grows while tackling society’s negative attitude and stigma towards mental disorders. The traditional-religious view of mental disorder as an external to the individual passed into the medical model. Almost to an extent, which psychotherapists could be view as modern exorcists of the individual’s ‘Dibuk’?


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