psych,soul and the butterfly.

psychiatry is a word derived from the Greek phrase 'iatro tes psuches', which means 'healer of the soul'.

In Greek mythology 'psych' was the name of a beautiful girl, with a radiant soul, which made even the goddess of love Venus jealous. so the Venus send her son cupid (also called as Eros) with his love bow, instructing him to make her fall in love with a monster, but on the sight of her,cupid himself fell in love with her, truly madly deeply.

And the story deepens when Venus found out psych and cupid were in love, she started doing her best to separate the two, at last Zeus came to their love's rescue.

The 'psych' herself became the symbol of soul, with her exuberant animated beauty and the ordeal she had went through in finding her true love. 'psych' also represents the butterfly. Imagine a dead butterfly and the butterfly sitting on a flower with fluttering wings. The only difference between the two is the science eluding' spirit' or which is otherwise called as soul or its equivalent 'psych'.

Ultimately the 'psych' is nothing but which animates this mechanical biological body. when the animation exceeds, we call it as mania, when it slumps down we call it as depression, when it is irrational we call it as psychosis, when it dissociates from mechanical body we call it as dissociative disorders. So healing of the psych is the ultimate .

In this current paranoid world (especially the scientific world), the time tested, with 'instinct knows it is correct' type of phrase like , 'love heals psych' needs evidence.

I leave you with an open ended question... so open, so you will all open up I think!

Do love really heals psych?