SECULAR psychiatry and traditional religion haven't always co-existed happily. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, regarded religion as a neurosis which was "childish" in the worst sense. Archbishop Fulton Sheen, one of the leading American Catholics of the 20th century, scornfully declared that the "in the whole gamut of modern psychology, there is nothing written on frustrations, fears and anxieties that even remotely compares" with the insights of saintly Christian thinkers like Augustine. Ierotheos Vlachos, a Greek bishop, has insisted in a series of books that his spiritual tradition offers the only real cure for a troubled soul.
