“Theistic Psychology and Psychotherapy”: A Theological and Scientific Critique

Abstract. I take the APA publication A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy (Richards and Bergin 2005), along with a devoted issue of Journal of Psychology and Theology (Nelson and Slife 2006), as a paradigmatic example of a trend. Other instances include the uncritical use of “Easter...

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Main Author: Helminiak, Daniel A. 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
In: Zygon
Year: 2010, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-74
Further subjects:B theist psychology
B Spirituality
B Inspiration
B Occasionalism
B Supernaturalism
B Viktor Frankl
B Epistemology
B Fideism
B psychological theory
B Theism
B secular psychotherapy
B Fundamentalism
B Insight
B Atheism
B Creation
B Reductionism
B Deism
B Divine Intervention
B Mormon theology
B Divine Providence
B Miracles
B Revelation
B theistic psychotherapy
B Pastoral Counseling
B Roberto Assagioli
B Agnosticism
B Ken Wilber
B Bernard J. F. Lonergan
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