Psychotherapy and Religious Values
Briefly

The 'Dissent from Freud' movement arose to challenge the dominant atheistic views in psychology established by figures like Sigmund Freud. Freud and others, such as Watson and Skinner, profoundly influenced early 20th-century psychology, often portraying religion negatively. Robert Hogan's comments highlighted the bias against discussing religion in psychology, emphasizing its historical significance as a social force. By 1979, signs indicated a shift as a movement began to integrate spiritual perspectives into mainstream psychology, marking a potential paradigm change in the field.
In psychology, anyone who gets involved in or tries to talk in an analytic, careful way about religion is immediately branded a meathead; a mystic; an intuitive, touchy-feely sort of moron.” - Robert Hogan (1979)
Freud grounded his theory in the worldview of naturalism, asserting that the universe can be explained without spiritual or transcendent explanations.
Most psychologists during the first eighty years of the 20th century either ignored or portrayed religion in a negative light.
An international movement to incorporate spiritual perspectives into mainstream psychology was about to begin.
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