1. A counselor approaches him who holds the somatic or chemical view-point:. Hearing the client's complaints, he immediately pre-scribes tranquilizers or pain killers. The solution is to anesthetize him. Or perhaps the client is a do-it-yourselfer who does not have any pills in the medicine closet. He may resort to his own chemical solution by anesthetizing his brain with alcohol. If a surgical specialist is on hand he may suggest that the nerves which are activated may be severed. This will knock out the symptoms and give the client relief. Smash the red light on the dashboard!
2. Then, of course, there's the Freudian analyst who looks over the situation and says: These pains are located near the sexual area. I think we'd better go back into the patient's childhood experiences and learn about some of his early sexual experiences. Then, perhaps we'll be able to alleviate his pain, though of course no assurance can be given. We recognize that he has been wrongly socialized and his superego is a cruel tyrant. If he can be resocialized he will possibly get better.
3. Next, a disciple of Rogers appears: When the sufferer asks him what he must do to get relief, the therapist replies: I'm not going to advise anything. I'm sure that you have all the resources within yourself to solve the difficulty. I'll reflect your questions back to you and help you clarify and gain insight. Now, sir, you say you are torn two ways?
4. Finally a Christian (nouthetic counselor) comes upon the scene: He looks around and finds a tack under the client. He says, "Get off that tack. Now that you're up, sit down on a chair over here and we'll talk about how you can avoid sitting on tacks in the future." (Competent to council, Jay Adams, p104)

1. The word psychiatry, was first used by Johann Christian Reil in 1808 AD, and by definition means "doctoring the soul". With the universal acceptance of the chemical/medical view of man being wholly physical to the exclusion of any notion of spirit or soul, the term psychiatry is a misnomer.
2. "In short, the nature of the hallucinations of Jesus, as they are described in the orthodox Gospels, permits us to conclude that the founder of the Christian religion was afflicted with religious paranoia." (Charles Binet-Sanglé, La Folie de Jésus, The Madness of Jesus, 1910, p 393)
3. "Everything that we know about him conforms so perfectly to the clinical picture of paranoia that it is hardly conceivable that people can even question the accuracy of the diagnosis."(American psychiatrist William Hirsch, Conclusions of a Psychiatrist, 1912, p 99)
4. "Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern [psychiatric] treatments." (William Sargant, "The movement in psychiatry away from the philosophical," The Times (English), 22 August 1974, p 14)
5. Clinical psychologist Ty Colbert says that in order to adopt psychiatry's biological model, one has to "believe in a materialistic, non-spiritual world ... the medical model claims there is no mental activity that is due to the spiritual dimension. All activity, even one's religious beliefs or the belief in God, are nothing more than the workings of the brain." (Ty C. Colbert, Rape of the Soul, Hour the Chemical Imbalance Model of Modern Psychiatry has Faded Its Patients, 2001, p. 236)
6. "The pastor provides the Christian comfort and the psychiatrist provides the needed therapy and neither conflicts with the other." ('Wesley W. Nelson, naive conservative Christian, Baker's Dictionary of Practical Theology, p. 300)

1. "Competent to Council", Jay Adams
2. "Psychology gone awry", Mark Cosgrove (good overview of modern positions)
3. "Psychology As Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship" Paul C. Vitz
4. "The Emperors New Clothes/the Naked Truth About the New Psychology", by William Kirk Kilpatrick

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