MARCH
LETTER
 Dear Friends,
There is an old saying: “If it looks like a duck, swims like
a duck and quacks like a duck—it’s probably a duck.” Psychotherapy looks
like a religion, acts like a religion and talks like a
religion—Voila!—it’s a religion. To establish that it is truly a
religion, we remove the label “science” from psychotherapy by revealing
that there are nearly 500 different, often conflicting systems of
psychotherapy and thousands of not-always-compatible techniques with no
one approach being much better than any other. Furthermore, it has been
shown that the individual psychotherapies are merely reflections of the
personalities and ideas of the theorists to such an extent that one
textbook says: “Persons analyzed by a psychoanalyst will have ‘Freudian’
dreams and become conscious of their Oedipus complex, while those
analyzed by Jungians will have archetypical dreams and be confronted
with their anima.” In our past writings we quote eminent philosophers of
science who have said such things as: counseling psychologies “though
posing as sciences had in fact more in common with primitive myths than
with science” (Sir Karl Popper), and, “In no case do I even suggest that
any psychology whatever is scientific theory” (Dr. Adoph Grunbaum).
Once the false façade of science is removed, psychotherapy
can be seen for what it truly is: religion! Dr. Thomas Szasz says, “The
human relations we now call ‘psychotherapy’ are, in fact, matters of
religion and we mislabel them as ‘therapeutic’ at great risk to our
spiritual well being.” Dr. William Epstein has written a book titled
Psychotherapy as Religion, which reveals its content.
It is amazing that most of the visible church has fallen for
this scientific façade and reject the idea that psychotherapy is a
competitive religion. Szasz says, “It is not merely a religion that
pretends to be a science, it is actually a fake religion that seeks to
destroy true religion.”
A simple question to the majority of the church who have
bought into the psychology craze: Does psychotherapy ever discuss, teach
or promote the idea that its clients are sinners in need of repentance
and salvation? The answer is obviously “No”! Excuse the allusion to the
earlier duck analogy, but we think it is appropriate to refer to
psychotherapy as a “quack” religion.
We greatly appreciate those of you who are not fooled by the
quack religion of psychotherapy and who support our efforts to expose it
for what it is.
In Christ,
Martin and Deidre Bobgan |
