Abstract
Cura animarum is the root of all medical practices. Modern medical science, however, has adopted an analytical approach to the local cure of physical diseases, and so the original function of care has barely remained in the fields of clinical psychiatry and psychotherapy. However, these branches have not been able to unify theory and practice. This situation corresponds to the semantic diversity of the word "spirituality." In what follows I would like to unravel the entangled problem. In the modern Weltanschauung the mental is regarded as the most immediate experience. The soul, however, includes all the three dimensions of "mental, physical, and social," and opens to the other and to the world. In order to regain the original openness of the soul, the mental should accept its finite physicality. This enables the mental to open to the other, and the so-far entangled three dimensions will harmonize with each other. The topos where such openness is possible is none other than spirituality, which offers a basis not only to care but also to any specific religion.
