This blog links Tuesday,
January 8, 2013 It
is NOT "Who's Right" but "What's Right"
and
Friday, January 18, 2013 Be
faithful to me and I will be faithful to you - The Emmanuel Movement
Rowland arrived in Zurich in May 1926 and
was Carl Jung's patient for a considerable length of time. Jung ended
up telling Rowland that he had never
seen alcoholics of his type recover until they became willing to commit
themselves to the spiritual life. Since Rowland
was a typical alcoholic, however, it took him seven more years of denial and
misery -- as he continued to refuse to take Jung's prescription seriously --
before he met Courtenay Baylor from the Emmanuel Movement and began seeking a spiritual solution to his alcoholism.
Courtenay
Baylor became Rowland Hazard's
therapist in 1933, and continued to work with him through 1934. It was under
the influence of Baylor's Emmanuel Movement therapy (with its combination of
spirituality and simple lay therapy) that Hazard actually began to recover. Hazard was also attending Oxford Group
meetings, but his family was paying Baylor
to be his regular therapist. Rowland joined
the Oxford Group in February of
1934. He took the Oxford Group Four Steps and started working with others.
In August 1934, of course, Hazard helped rescue Ebby Thacher from being committed to the Brattleboro Asylum, and three months later, in November 1934, Ebby visited Bill Wilson in his kitchen, in the famous scene recorded in the first chapter of the Big Book.
In August 1934, of course, Hazard helped rescue Ebby Thacher from being committed to the Brattleboro Asylum, and three months later, in November 1934, Ebby visited Bill Wilson in his kitchen, in the famous scene recorded in the first chapter of the Big Book.
Courtenay Baylor began working with Father Worcester
in 1912, focusing solely on those with alcohol problems, and became the other
key leader in the movement in later years.
INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT
Whatever
progress medicine may make as a science, the treatment of the sick, as Dr. Weir
Mitchell [1] maintained, will always be an art. It is from this point of view that
Mr. Baylor’s treatise should be judged. It describes as simply and truthfully as
words can describe a method of moral treatment of certain selected cases which
has been productive of good results. For years I have sat in my study in Emmanuel Church, and I have seen Mr. Baylor’s
patients come and go. Many have come to the Church, broken and ruined men. They
came to us because life itself had cast them off and they knew not whither else
to go, nor how to escape from the vices and miseries which were destroying
them. Many of them have gone forth new men, having undergone a change in
character, in physical and moral health and in facial expression little short of
miraculous. These men, I should state, were not recruited from any single rank
in life. They represented almost all types of education and social environment
from the lowest to the highest. While many presented definite problems of
alcoholism, morphinism or sexual abnormality, many others have sought relief
from the ordinary neuroses and psychoses-depression, fear, weakness of will,
painful thoughts, insomnia, evil temper, lack of mental concentration, with the
resultant tale of failure, impoverishment and discouragement.
In
talking with many of these men I am have been impressed by the extent to which
they had been able to accept and appropriate Mr. Baylor’s philosophy and by the use they
were able to make of it. It would be strictly true to say that this teaching
has changed life for hundreds of men and for the families of such men. I know
alas! only too well how far the written word fails to express the whole
personality of a man.
Yet I
hope that this little book, conceived in charity and illumined in every page by
vital experience, may produce upon its readers some portion of the effect which
the same thoughts have created when informally uttered.
Edward Worcester
Emmanuel Church
REMAKING A MAN
@ Remaking A Man, One Successful
Method Of Mental Refitting by Courtenay Baylor of The Emmanuel Movement, 1919 http://www.silkworth.net/emmanuel_movement/
[1] Silas Weir Mitchell
( 1829 – 1914 ) was an American physician and writer known for his discovery of causalgia.
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