The new focus on theistic psychotherapy
The new focus on theistic psychotherapy

Summary/Abstract: The historical intellectual spectrum of psychology and clinical psychiatry is rooted in naturalism or materialism, which requires that mental and emotional disorders be attributed to natural causes in a way similar to what has been done in medicine for the physical body. In the past decade there has been an intensified resurgence of the attempt to expand the intellectual base of psychology and psychopathology beyond what has been allowed so far by psychology’s adoption of strict empiricism and the scientific method1,2 has decried the endorsement of materialism in psychology and psychiatry, which has resulted in the inability to consider the legitimacy of purely mental issues such as psychic forces that influence consciousness, or the patient’s relationship to God. These psychic forces are defined as having an independent existence, apart from the physical world and its material forces. These mental activities are called “spiritual” or “transcendent”, besides others.

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