A natural science/medical model dominates the fields of psychiatry and psychotherapy today. In such a context, the personal activity of humans is viewed as an obstacle to overcome in order to understand the only legitimate causes of disorder and cure. Nowhere is this better evident than in what has been termed “the placebo effect.” Rather than assuming this phenomenon is an obstacle to good science, we will explore how to reinterpret it from a human science/Christian therapy perspective as a kind of natural faith, common to all human beings, and the basis of much of human change.
