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Although its philosophy has been taken over by the field of psychiatry (in which I include psychoanalysis), the idea of shriving oneself of fears and other besetting difficulties has its roots--as far as Western culture is concerned--in the confessional, though it seems likely that reflexes of that procedure could be discovered in profound Eastern religions if not in shamanistic practices.