Transcript 2010-10-17b--Christianity_and_Psychology

Christianity and Psychology
Interweavings:
Christianity and Psychology
Interweavings:
Christianity and Psychology
A wee look at power from the perspective
of a Psychologist who is a Christian
A wee look at power from the perspective of a
Psychologist who is a Christian
• Moment 1:The powerfulness of a biblical
counsellor
• We discovered that counselling was not the business of
a caste of self styled and self appointed professionals
but was the work of pastors and the task of every
Christian. ….
• Psychologists have no biblical warrant, training or
standards provided by their training for doing
counselling…
• God did not leave his people without adequate
instruction for living and changing all these years before
modern psychotherapy appeared…..
• The bible with its message of salvation and
sanctification has all that one needs to live in patterns
that are pleasing to God and beneficial to one’s
neighbour.
• Indeed the advent of psychotherapeutic counselling
meant that unbelievers had determined to develop new
and different ways to teach men to live and to handle his
problems….. ways that ignored Jesus Christ. In thus
wrongly entering the areas of counselling,
psychotherapists have in effect set themselves up
competitively over against God and the bible. That is
why the integration of counselling psychology and
biblical counselling is impossible.
• The bible was intended to be the textbook for helping
people come to love God and their neighbours. It is the
textbook for living in this world … all that is needed to
form values, beliefs, attitudes and behavioural styles is in
the Scriptures. Indeed no other book can do so and all
other books that attempt to do so thereby become
competitive
A wee look at power from the perspective of a
Psychologist who is a Christian
• Moment 1:The powerfulness of a biblical
counsellor
• Moment 2 Powerfulness of the naïve
Christian leader
• The bible was intended to be the
textbook for helping people come to
love God and their neighbours. It is the
textbook for living in this world … all
that is needed to form values, beliefs,
attitudes and behavioural styles is in
the Scriptures.
A wee look at power from the perspective of a
Psychologist who is a Christian
• Moment 1:The powerfulness of a biblical
counsellor
• Moment 2 Powerfulness of the naïve
Christian leader
• Moment 3. Powerfulness of a naïve
psychologist
A wee look at power from the perspective of a
Psychologist who is a Christian
• Moment 1: The powerfulness of a biblical
counsellor
• Moment 2: Powerfulness of the naïve
Christian leader
• Moment 3: Powerfulness of a naïve
psychologist
• Moment 4: Negotiated power of less naïve
psychologist.
Analogies
drawn
from:
Social
Organisation
Constructed as:
Problems
Constructed
as:
Solution
Constructed in
Terms of:
Physical
Sciences
Elaborate Machine Breakdown,
Reversal,
Damage
Isolating cause,
Precise Analysis,
Repair,
Reconstruct,
Correct
Biological
Sciences
Quasi-organism
Symptomatic of
underlying
problem,
Serving a
function, Having
a Use
Identifying
Pathology, Correct
Diagnosis,
Operating and
Excising
Pathology
Social
Sciences:
Story
Acting out the
story we have of
our lives
Performance of
Oppressive,
dominant Story
or Knowledge
Opening Space for
the Authoring of
Alternative Stories
A wee look at power from the perspective of a
Psychologist who is a Christian
• Moment 1:The powerfulness of a biblical
counsellor
• Moment 2: Powerfulness of the naïve Christian
leader
• Moment 3: Powerfulness of a naïve
psychologist
• Moment 4: Negotiated power of less naïve
psychologist.
• Moment 5: Reflections on The kingdom of God
power
A wee look at power from the perspective of a
Psychologist who is a Christian
• Moment 1:The powerfulness of a biblical
counsellor
• Moment 2: Powerfulness of the naïve Christian
leader
• Moment 3: Powerfulness of a naïve
psychologist
• Moment 4: Negotiated power of less naïve
psychologist.
• Moment 5: Reflections on The kingdom of God
power
• Moment 6: The Psychologist’s Code of Ethics
Psychologists code of Ethics
• The practice of Psychology promotes wellbeing.
• Psychologists will seek to do right in their relationships.
• Each person and all persons are positively valued in
their own right and are shown respect and granted
dignity as part of their common humanity.
• Psychologists both as individuals and as a group have
responsibilities to the community and to society in
general.
• Psychologists have a commitment to the principle of
social justice. While acknowledging their position of
power and influence in relation to individuals and groups
within the community Psychologists are committed to
addressing and challenging unjust societal norms and
behaviours that disempower people at all levels of
interaction.