Tis like saying, in rainy weather, there is no sun. If Emerson could hear the growing chorus of therapists chanting for a more spiritual heart to our work, he might agree that the weather is clearing and the sun is beginning to filter through gaps in the cloud cover. God is showing through. They hate it, but they can't do anything about it.
Facts are facts.
In therapy, unfortunately, we are seldom blessed with the luxury of facts. Perhaps, as many are suggesting, therapy has more to do with soul than facts. An obsession with trying to ascertain the facts has taken us some way in our work, but not all the way and is likely ever to do so. We need to learn, many argue, to look beyond the scientific materialism which has dominated the field if we are to go any further. In short, rediscovering the soul of therapy is an indisputably hot topic at its 100th birthday party.