On Psychiatry

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So I could say: Basically, the same applies in psychiatry as we say about the art of education when we talk about Waldorf schools: one should not just come up with some new formulations of a theoretical nature, but one should bring the living spiritual science itself into this field. What one has to say from the pedagogical field, one also has to say from the psychiatric field. It will never be possible to approach the matter one-sidedly and say: this or that can be improved in the field of psychiatry. Rather, one must familiarize oneself with the idea that Either one assumes the spiritual-scientific basis in the field of knowledge in general, then this spiritual-scientific basis will already transform psychiatry, then it will make something out of psychiatry in particular, which is actually longed for by many people today, but which cannot be achieved at all by the latest scientific methods, which have of course been sufficiently discussed with you yesterday and today.

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