WHERE ARE THE 9

Jesus' questions as recorded in the Gospels offer a prophetic challeng e for Christian therapists who seek to integrate their faith with thei r clinical practice. One of my favorites is Jesus' question in Luke 17 to the one leper who returned after all ten had been healed: ''Where are the nine?'' John Bunyan (1678/1969) in his classic The Pilgrim's P rogress had his protagonist, an Everyman he named ''Christian,'' trave rse an allegorical odyssey en route to the Celestial City past adversa rial characters with names like ''Ignorance,'' ''Pliable,'' and ''Obst inate.'' Taking inspiration from Bunyan, I propose putting the lepers in Luke to similarly imaginative use, recasting them for my purposes h ere as ten invented characters who represent different but common resp onses to the notion that integration is something indivisbly, irreduci bly, and fundamentally personal, It is my thesis that we run from this notion just as the lepers ran from Christ. I have divided the lepers into four ''colonies'': three of three lepers each, and the tenth as a colony of one. In this article I address the first two colonies, whic h I have named ''No Need'' and ''No Good.''