Soul, a religious and psychological word, has disappeared from mainstream Psychology. Along with it, the concept of an agency essential to humanness has also disappeared. Instead of the denotations unifying soul, spirit and mind, and opposing soul to body, it seems possible to restore the original relationship between those words from the Hebraic biblical sources, some idiomatic expressions of western languages, and the founding psychological vocabulary. It is not so much the use of the word soul, as the refusal to not using it that makes it interesting to the psychotherapist to pay attention to recent American and European studies that attempt to give again the soul its structural and dynamic standing in the psyche.
soul; heart; mind; psychotherapy; psyche; psychological vocabulary