Welcome to the November 2008 issue of the Psychology Debunked newsletter.
"From the dawn of time, man has sought the answer to three fundamental questions:
1) Who are we? 2) Why do we do what we do? 3) How do we change?
Today's churches over the past several decades have sought to address these questions by outsourcing the soul to secular psychology. What has been the result of such outsourcing?"
Find out by watching this new 11-minute video from ABC, then forwarding to your pastor--it could revolutionize his counseling ministry forever!
Christian counselors who simply point people to Jesus and His powerful Word provide real answers and healing:
Psa 147:3He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
No human counselor can even know our hearts, much less heal them:
Jer 17:9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.
Regardless, many Christians insist on looking to the "professionals" for help with life's problems. This is a futile endeavor:
Psa 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.
Psa 118:8 [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
This month, we review repressed memories and recovered memory therapy (RMT), and see the tragic results of readers and those close to them "putting confidence in man" to provide this therapy. Contrast this with a letter from a reader whose son and his girlfriend reject the notion of bipolar and drugs, trust in the Lord and do things His way, and reap much blessing.
Outsourcing to Jesus,
Lisa and Ryan Bazler
Recovered Memory Therapy - a pastor's perspective
Millions have been affected by false memories of sexual abuse and other traumatic experiences created by therapists during "recovered memory therapy," or RMT, including Ken Scribner, whose marriage and pastoral ministry were destroyed by allegations of sexual abuse in his wife's family. While acknowledging that real cases of sexual abuse exist--even in the church--his article clearly explains the spiritual and familial dangers of RMT. more »
We received a letter from a reader whose wife took the kids and abandoned him after her RMT therapist convinced her that he was abusive, even though no abuse was present in the marriage. After the separation, he met with the RMT therapist to better understand what happened. This is what the therapist said...more »
Abuse allegations divide family and almost kill mother
This Swiss reader's friend received RMT for her depression, and "discovered" via hypnosis that her depression was caused by supposed molestation by her second grade teacher--abuse that, according to the therapist, her parents knew about but chose to ignore. If destroying her relationship with her parents wasn't enough, the therapist threw in another lie about her sister. Her cure? Rebirthing therapy, which sent her bright and successful mother into multiple strokes, coma, permanent brain damage and a board and care home--and this is just one of this reader's stories...more »
Pastor's wife uses RMT, sentences reader to 17 years of mental misery
This reader, now a public mental health professional, starts her letter this way:
"Initially I was plunged into the world of mental health when I went to a large mega-church and asked to receive counseling from the pastors wife because of a problem with the sin of bitterness. The first session she told me sin was not my issue, that I was probably sexually abused but “forgot” all about it. After 2 months of her counsel which was 100 % secular I became so unraveled that I made some suicidal gestures and was put in the hospital and thus began a life in hell, and 17 years of mental health treatment." But last year she decided to turn her life around... more »
Mom's son and his girlfriend respond to truth on bipolar
How delighted we were to receive this letter from a mother who cared enough about her son and his girlfriend's bipolar label to speak up. The outcome couldn't have been any better!more »
HTML clipboardOver the last several years I have been troubled by the ravages of psychiatry that I have witnessed in the lives of well-meaning Christians and their families. The more I studied scripture the more the truth stood in stark relief to the tenets of psychology.
"I know of no one I've counseled who's gotten better as a result of therapy. They simply add medication to medication and live in a state of fuzz, which removes them from real responsibility and life. it gives them an excuse to check out.
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HTML clipboardI've been doing [biblical counseling] for some years now and have learned there is no substitute for the Word of God. It is the only cure." --Reader, Bible teacher, and counselor
"[After 17 years depending on the mental health system,] I had a mental image of standing before my creator and saying “I did nothing with my life because I was in therapy.” I was literally on disability and told I was too mentally ill to work, my days were tedious and painfully boring with no purpose and meaning. [So] I divorced myself from the mental health system..."
--Reader now serving others in the public mental health sector
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The mission of this ministry is to inform mental sufferers and those from whom they seek help of the physical, mental and spiritual dangers of mental health disorders and treatments, and to encourage them to pursue a drug-free, psychology-free, Christ-centered life. Visitors to this web site taking psychotropic drugs who wish to discontinue use are strongly advised to consult a qualified physician for assistance and supervision before starting the discontinuation process. This ministry and web site provides information to help visitors make the most informed decisions about their mental health, and should not replace the advice of a medical doctor.
