A spiritual strategy for counseling and psychotherapy.The Alienation Between Religion and Psychology.

Abstract

In this chapter, we briefly discuss the historical neglect of religious and spiritual issues in the mainstream mental health professions. We assert that, in attempting to establish their theories as "scientific," the early leaders of psychology and psychiatry adopted many of the philosophical assumptions of 19th-century Newtonian and Darwinian science. We briefly define these assumptions and discuss why their influence has led to the exclusion of spiritual perspectives. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)