As Jungian analyst James Hillman remarked, “Psychotherapy is only working on that ‘inside’ soul. By removing the soul from the world and not recognising that the soul is also in the world, psychotherapy can’t do its job anymore. The buildings are sick, the institutions are sick, the banking system’s sick, the schools, the streets - the sickness is out there.

In their training, therapists learn that common sense is not always useful in counseling others. Human life is full of paradoxes and contradictions.

“I had Plato in mind when, many years ago now, I wrote Care of the Soul. I thought of it as simple, daily concrete care for our essence, our depth, and the source of our humanity. If you care for your soul, you will be more human, able to relate better and find your way through life, discovering your purpose and calling. Care of the soul is not always about dealing directly with problems but solving them indirectly by discovering your deepest self and making a beautiful life.

Therefore, I don’t merely advocate therapy for the world but also therapy in the world.

Morris, who was certainly a therapist for the world, wrote: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.