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...Depth Therapy. At Lutheran General Hospital northwest of Chicago, where the treatment runs 21 days and costs $1,827, there is also an emphasis on interaction between patients and staff and among the patients themselves. For most patients, there is no in-depth therapy. "We're off this kick of using psychotherapy," says Medical Director Dr. Nelson Bradley, a psychiatrist, echoing the general opinion of experts that classical psychoanalysis is of limited help for most alcoholics...
...patient at Lutheran General is treated for withdrawal symptoms -which can range from the shakes and hallucinations to convulsions and fullblown DTs-and given a medical assessment during his first five days. On the sixth day he is assigned to one of three 25-patient teams. They meet three times a week-in many cases with wives, husbands, children and even employers-in sessions designed to bring the alcoholic back into society through lectures, educational films and discussions about drinking problems. Lutheran General follows up its patients for two or three months, some of them with psychotherapy, and it estimates...
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHURCH...
...doctrinal discussions, begun in 1965 under the auspices of U.S. Catholic bishops and the three major Lutheran denominations in the U.S., have already reached broad areas of agreement on such thorny issues as the role of the ministry and the significance of the central sacrament of the Eucharist. The latest paper states that "Christ wills for his church a unity [that] must be manifest in the world," and concurs that "a special responsibility for this may be entrusted to one individual minister, under the Gospel." Moreover, it notes, "the Bishop of Rome," whom Catholics already accept in this role, might...
...agreement posed questions for both communions. It asked Lutherans to consider "the possibility and desirability of the papal ministry... in a larger communion which would include the Lutheran churches." The Catholic Church was asked to consider "the possibility of a reconciliation which would recognize the self-government of Lutheran churches within a communion...