Psychotherapy in its crudest sense can be denned as the attempt to exert a benevolent influence on another individual through the interviewing process. In whatever framework such activity occurs, whether it consists of magical healing or the scientific application of psychodynamic principles, the influence is exerted through some form of intervention, whether overt or covert, implicit or designed. All influences, whether words, electricity, drugs, or surgical instruments, are interventions in that they intrude into another person's life. Such intrusions may be solicited or uninvited; but in order to affect any individual's existence we must move into his living in some fashion or other. Consequently, intervention might be considered to be the essence of the therapeutic process.

Pierre Janet in Psychological Healing says, “Man always plays his part in the production of miracles (Healing). Almost always there is a magician or a priest (or psychological helper) at work.”

The production of miracles in the