TRINITY Therapy: A Closer Look at God

By PhD MSW Henry Sherry Lewis

Sherry Lewis Henry, PhD, MSW, is a licensed clinician who has worked in private practice, social service agencies, and group therapy settings, specializing in PTSD, in both civilian and military settings in CA, TX, HI, and Japan. Her chosen modality is Transactional Analysis, which offers a simple route

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: May 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9781685566708

PhD MSW Henry Sherry Lewis

Sherry Lewis Henry, PhD, MSW, is a licensed clinician who has worked in private practice, social service agencies, and group therapy settings, specializing in PTSD, in both civilian and military settings in CA, TX, HI, and Japan. Her chosen modality is Transactional Analysis, which offers a simple route by which clients can better understand themselves and others.

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TRINITY THERAPY

By Sherry Lewis Henry PhD, MSW

Endorsements

To Whom It May Concern:

I fully endorse Dr. Sherry Henry’s book, Trinity Therapy, because I believe it to be Divinely Inspired; being remarkably articulate, vivid, moving and beautifully cadenced.

Raymond V. Taylor, GMG1 USN Retired

Sr. Pastor and Teacher

La Presa Community Church

Spring Valley, California

I was delighted to learn of Trinity Therapy, that authenticated how I felt when problems arose between myself and others. I was dismayed that I couldn’t find any resources on this beneficial, practical approach. When Dr. Sherry Henry mentioned the book, Trinity Therapy, was soon to be published, I was overjoyed and am anticipating its release.

HT1 (SW/AW)

Nunnari, Lauren, USN Retired

Spring Valley, California

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Dedication

In early 1925, Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist Viktor Frankl had become critical of the one-dimensionality of the human being, as portrayed by Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler’s psychology. Although he incorporated their concepts of the pleasure and power principles, he also recognized what was missing. In his personal experience and his life’s work as a psychiatrist, he expanded their concepts into the third dimension.

He coined the term, Existential Vacuum, as that place in which, a person sees no-meaning in life, no protection against depression, resignation, and apathy. This plight he envisioned as spiritual distress. Existential vacuum also leaves the door open for anticipatory anxiety or depression to reoccur. The very expectation of such an attack precipitates it, again and again. (I believe it will; I fear it will, I trust it will.).

Existential Analysis, better known as Logotherapy, introduced three avenues of meaning, through which Dr. Frankl appealed to the physical, mental, and spiritual unity. Recognizing the proper dimension of each of the three phenomena, without classing an inferior category phenomenon, he explained that To conceive of their wholeness of unity, means to understand them within the interplay, of the Totality of Being, embodied in each person.

Dr. Frankl further stated that the approach to existence need not be merely psychological, but also existential. His Logotherapy centers on life’s meaning, as well as man’s search for meaning. His perspective deviated from psychoanalysis’ focus on gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts, (compromising the conflicting claims of Id, Ego and Superego, or in adaptation and adjustment to society and environment). His Logotherapy reflects, There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships, so much as the awareness that one has a task in life. He further postulated that:

One characteristic of human existence is its transcendence. Man transcends his environment, toward a higher world, and he also transcends his being toward an ‘ought.’ This is the dimension of spirit (Not religion). Self-transcendence is the essence of human existence. What counts and matters is not our fears and anxieties as such, but rather, the attitude we adopt toward them.

This attitude is freely chosen. Man has freedom to choose between, fulfilling or declining the meaning that awaits him. Needless to say, the freedom of a finite being such as man, is a freedom within limits. Man is not free from conditions, be they biological or psychological or sociological in nature, but he is and always remains, free to take a stand toward these conditions; he always retains the freedom to choose his attitude toward them."

Logotherapy, also known as Existential Analysis, is based on three fundamental assumptions, which form a chain of links that are interconnected with one another:

Freedom of Will

Will to Meaning, and

Meaning of Life.

We do not attach and attribute meanings to things: but rather, we find them. We do not invent them. We detect them. Someone who sees no meaning in life, is becoming aware of the Existential Vacuum.

The spiritual distress of a human being is striving for a meaning to his existence. Only to the extent that man has fulfilled the concrete meaning of his personal existence, will he also have fulfilled himself. Existential Vacuum: no point, no purpose, no value.

A Life not worth living, does not exist. Viktor Frankl.

Dr. Frankl’s views regarding suffering are most astoundingly notable:

"The ability of human beings to suffer in the face of an unchangeable fate, and

The person’s will to meaning, that is to say, the ability of the person to bear difficult life circumstances because there is a "MORE,’ through which suffering becomes acceptable.

Through the right attitude, unavoidable suffering is transmuted into a heroic and victorious achievement."

Viktor Frankl was a young doctor with a young wife named Tilly. In September 1942, Frankl, Tilly, his parents, and brother were taken to the concentration camp. In addition to Tilly, his parents and brother were all killed by Hitler’s orders over the next three years. He experienced four different camps, the last being Auschwitz. Even then, he participated in the Shock Squad. When comrades became hopeless in their dilemma of endurance and loss of loved ones, We would give life back to them. He believed in unconditional meaning with his comrades in the concentration camp. In that place, even under the most hostile external circumstances, he tried to be Doctor, Friend, and Human Being, to be a comforter to others.

What is a human being? A human being is One who always decides who and what One is. Humans are the Beings who invented the gas chambers, but they are at the same time, also the Beings who went into the gas chambers, upright and with prayers on their lips.

Viktor Frankl

Author’s Personal Notes:

Dr. Viktor Frankl authored numerous meaningful books during his lifetime. I once read his book titled Man’s Search for Meaning. I knew this was the person I desperately needed to seek out for personal therapy, but he was in Vienna, Austria!

Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, in Baton Rouge, La.

I am extremely grateful to Rev. Swaggart for acquainting me with Jesus Christ via spiritual conversion in Madison, Tennessee, in May, 1964. Months later, my husband and I,