Can we be definitive and establish causation?

Health professionals who diagnose physical ailments help us recover from disease in important ways. Health professionals who diagnose people needing psychiatric help often make a huge difference to their lives. Health professionals who diagnose emotional difficulties and apply psychologically based labels are in a much less certain arena. If I address ‘mind’ I am addressing connections which are woven tightly together. A diagnosis which has its foundation in the separation of mind, body, spirit and emotions assumes disintegration has occurred. How can there be disintegration when there is no separation? How can I make a diagnosis which addresses emotional forces within one person when those emotions are intricately bound to the emotions of another and to a spirit world woven into the world we call reality? Personal pain, described as emotional pain or trauma by European-based theorists, is not confined to the present moment and may exist on a timeline reaching deep into a timeless continuum. Associated events, relationships and formative intrusions may have happened to an historical figure in a cultural setting whose influence affects ‘the client’ in ways that remain in the shadows of anonymity. How can I form a diagnosis of human pain which sets it within a specific time frame or views it as existing only within the lifetime of one person? That which gives rise to personal pain or inhibition may not have a defined beginning. The idea that causes exist as separate entities is questionable within the context of life surrounded by constant ebb and flow. A diagnosis which postulates causes is likely to ignore the complexity of one life being a woven tapestry. To ask when pain began or when dis-ease was first formed is to ignore the interconnections scientists are examining and to reject the idea that there is a powerful collective unconscious.