MOST of my research has been observing lives . . .
how they sought and related to God or otherwise.
And how God responded . . .
and the place Scripture and Holy Spirit had in such lives . . . or didn’t.
The PhD dissertation was a small formal subset of such research. It did end up confirming some of my observational impressions. Though one was not confirmed.
When my days were no longer spent within the Mass General Walls, I saw other babies, infants, kids.
There was something so weird about them. After a while I figured out what it was:
They were healthy.
Pastors and pshrinks see the people who come to pastors and pshrinks. It's a self-skewed sample. IF we're not careful, we might think it was representative.
One fringe benefit of the Catholic confession deal is that pastors have SOME kind of contact with even healthy people.