TONY DIGIROLAMO- Those who know that I believe that Psychology is to blame for a lot of American culture gone wrong and the immoral, unrighteous, and uncivilized direction of the country.
Then I discovered this writing. It underscores exactly what I have been told about Freud and the followers influence on the nation.
THE AMERICAN RECEPTION OF SIGMUND FREUD
Thesis by Ruth Pedersen Hunsberger
William R Coulson said that Freud's followers, Carl Rogers, and Abraham Maslow, looked to replace organized religion with psychology.
Watch the Culture Shock video again and listen closely to the 3 minute video.
You must see how the puzzle fits perfectly.
If you're still wondering how we got here the article above will show you how Freud and his ideas were embraced.
The romance continues ... Seems to make no difference that Rogers and Maslow hated what they had started was too difficult to stop.
His colleges are gone but their philosophies continue even after the grave.
The Ruth Pedersen Hunsberger thesis writes, The favorable Protestant response to psychoanalysis stemmed from the partnership it had established with scientific psychology in the late 19th century, seeking an understanding of the nature of religious belief as well as insight into mental illness at a time when the medical sciences were unprepared to deal with the functional approach to neurosis. Freud probably received more abuse from the conservative core of the American medical profession than from the entire ministerial profession. This is not to say that Protestant clergymen, liberal or conservative, were not offended by Freud’s anti-God pronouncements. But they did not let Freud’s religious views prejudice them against psychoanalysis as they understood it.
Boston Globe: Her thesis, "The American Reception of Sigmund Freud," took a sweeping look at religious movements in the United States in the late 1800s. Mrs. Hunsberger suggested that Christian Science and the New Thought and Emmanuel movements helped lay the groundwork for what she termed the "enthusiastic" reaction to Freud in 1909, when he made his only trip to the United States and spent part of his time lecturing at Clark University in Worcester.
Partway through her thesis, she asked: "Was the rapid growth of the psychoanalytical movement in the United States related to the possibility that psychoanalysis could further spiritual ends, indeed, be good for the soul?"
Mrs. Hunsberger concluded that even though "the psychoanalytic star that shone so brilliantly for half a century has been dimmed somewhat by new insights into mental illness and new methods of treatment. . . . Freud and the gospel of health and happiness are still alive."
"Freud and the gospel of health and happiness are still alive."
I rest my case ... vindicated.
Health and happiness is not what psychology has given us.
It's given us school shootings with kids on antidepressants.
Courts full of psychobabble and getting away with murder.
Political correctness and a loss of free speech.
The human sexuality madness, porn, entertainment, homosexuality, adultery, divorce, pediphiles, as well.
There's so much more.
This is the one most difficult for me, the churches expansion of Christian psychologist integrating scripture with the likes of the philosophies of man and not of Christ!
"Freud and the gospel of health and happiness are still alive." indeed they are... sadly.
"The favorable Protestant response to psychoanalysis" as the thesis reports,
and the warm acceptance of Freud by Christians ... That's the tragedy to America and western civilization.
