“But what of those who deny that mankind is the standard, and who hold that Biblical faith requires separation and division? The prophets of mental health of this religion of humanity know the answer: they are mentally sick. God’s hell is outlawed, but a new hell has opened up for apostates: mental sickness, with its many mansions. Mental health is so defined that not only political and economic conservatives but all orthodox Christians are clearly sick. Did not Freud say that religious people avoided the personal neuroses by accepting the cosmic neuroses? The fact that they are more responsible, stable and neuroses free is itself proof of their sickness, i.e., acceptance of the cosmic neuroses, God! The prophets of mental health must be given free reign to ‘heal’ mankind by a vast reorganization of the world. The results of the mental health programs have been a steady encroachment on civil liberties of a most flagrant sort. The power of psychiatrist is the foundation of a new and more fearful inquisition. The relationship of the psychiatrist to courts of law is increasingly seen by many as a threat to society. To criticize the mental health movement is to draw fire on oneself as mentally disturbed and also, an added ‘evil’ a champion of political and economic conservatism. This is not surprising. Freud provided two ‘impregnable’ defenses. First, since the questions of man’s nature are biological and not religious; they are therefore expert, medical and not lay problems. A do-it-yourself program may be valid in religion but not in medicine. As a result laymen are denied the right to criticize the mysteries of the mental health program. Second, any resistance to acceptance of his theories was for Freud an infallible sign of truth, for the person was fighting against the exposure of his unconscious with is darkly hidden impulses and sickness. Thus, the critic of Freud merely proved himself guilty. These two techniques of defense have been widely adopted.”
R. J. Rushdoony
Freud – pg. 67-68
1.) The “Discipline” (it really should be called “Fairy Tale”) of Psychology has been used since its inception as a battering ram to destroy Christendom in general and the Christian faith in particular. It has no more credibility now then it did when it started as phrenology with the determining of character by the feeling of bumps on people’s craniums. Psychology is the biggest hoax that has been foisted on Western Man since the serpent walked into the garden selling apples. Whenever I hear the word “psychology” I reach for my revolver.
2.) The absolute worthlessness of psychology doesn’t mean there aren’t people who are seriously twisted. But saying that psychology shows its worth by being able to identify twisted people is like arguing that my broken clock shows its worth by being able to identify the right time twice a day. Hey people, even a blind old sow can find an acorn once in awhile.
3.) Theodoro Adorno’s “Authoritarian Personality” along with other input from the cultural marxist movement has been a large influence on the shrink community. The cultural Marxists have been successful at using psychology and psychiatry to pathologize all that once was and in point of fact remains normal. As I have it in the bold print above, all conservative expressions, any belief in absolute truth descending from a personal God, all rants against psychology (including this one) putatively proves that people are clinically sick to the people who have been designated as the official “pointers out of sick people.”
4.) If the Church is supposed to hold the keys to the Kingdom, increasingly it is the case that the shrinks hold the keys to the Church. Increasingly, denominations are requiring their ministry candidates to be funneled through a gauntlet of psychological tests, psychologists, psychologist recommendations, psychologist sessions and psychologist cow pies. Some day, if Reformation ever comes, people are going to look back at this and laugh at all the money, time, and talent wasted due to this psychology charade. All of this is the concrete expression of what Rushdoony above calls “the new and more fearful inquisition” of our times.
5.) As a professional, I have met many many of these types of people. I have yet to meet one who has anything approaching a Biblical worldview. This is scary given the fact that this “discipline” is required for almost any professional field of study anymore. The inmates are running the asylum.
6.) Finally, its pretty good work if you can get it when you can be in a career where if people disagree with you it proves that you are right, since their disagreement reveals their unwillingness to accept the truth, and where if people agree with you it proves that you are right.
The acceptance of psychology and psychiatry in my estimation more than anything else proves that people are lemmings and will believe anything. Psychiatry is a hoax and yet if you just keep repeating the lie long enough and loud enough that it is profound and insightful everybody follows along.
I’m not following.
