
Celia Walden wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph this month about the former Archbishop of Canterbury who recently claimed that he has been seeing both a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist. She asks:

Celia Walden wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph this month about the former Archbishop of Canterbury who recently claimed that he has been seeing both a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist. She asks:

I have just read Andrew Thomson’s nineteenth century biography of Thomas Boston (1676-1732), the Scottish Presbyterian minister of Simprin and later on, and more famously, Ettrick. Biographies of fellow ministers, even famous and highly regarded ones, offer instruction and comfort even to those inhabiting the vineyard’s distant corners. He writes: