TOO MUCH PSYCHOLOGY: REASON FOR IMMORAL NARCISSISTIC SECULAR CULTURE

TOO MUCH PSYCHOLOGY: REASON FOR IMMORAL NARCISSISTIC SECULAR CULTURE

WILLIAM R. COULSON

This writer and Carl Rogers, as co-editors of the Studies of the Person textbook series, played too aggressive a role in stimulating school teachers to adopt the nonjudgmental stance of the clinical psychotherapist. In 1967 we launched a facilitator training program: we said, "In times of rapid change, teaching has to go." To "facilitate learning" is what we said teachers must do instead of teach. (This was our teaching, but we failed to notice. We wanted teachers to be nondirective, but we were not nondirective ourselves. Of course not.

For our part, by 1977 we'd seen the need for society to pay respect to traditional family values once more; under increasing attack in popular psychology, family continuity was being destroyed and freedom lost.