Help From Above/Помощь Cвыше

Tatyana Noel-Tsygulska, PhD in Psychology

Mental health is dealt with both in Psychology and Bible based Christianity. Both viewpoints suggest ideas and concepts, which define and explain mental health phenomena. They also suggest practical methods of healing and help for people, who suffer emotional traumas, mental anguish and mental disturbance. There are lots of mutual prejudices against each other. For example, a number of Psychologists consider Christianity impotent to render real help. This is not true. Many believers resist Psychology and deem it to be something like Extra-Sensory Perception or other satanic practices¹. This is not true either, and you will be given a chance to be persuaded about it today.

Once a student of mine from Practical Psychology college who works as a School Psychologist related how the mother of her pupil, being an active believing Christian, refused to allow her son to attend a counseling session. The mother’s argument was, “You are a psychic (ESP).”

The goal of this article is to examine concepts and methods of achieving mental health and healing, suggested by Psychology and Biblical Christianity; to discover objective facts about common areas and differences between them; to define the source of those ideas and methods, and by doing this to unveil popular misunderstandings.

Practical methods of mental healing are proposed by many trends of Psychology, in particular, Person-Centered Therapy², Psychodynamic Therapy³, Cognitive Psychology, T-groups, Encounter groups, Gestalt Therapy⁴, etc.

There is a technology of healing of mind in the teaching and activity of Jesus Christ⁵. They are described in the Bible. A psychiatrist once said, “With many of my patients I just take the Bible in hand and read to them Christ’s words. It is the best Psychotherapy”.

So let us compare Biblical teaching (Christianity based on the Bible) and Psychological approaches to mental healing, stated by the Bible and by the key Psychologists.

First of all, I would like to underline a fundamental idea: the Bible and science do not contradict each other. True science confirms the Scripture because it studies the realities of God’s creation and strives to discover the truth. It leans on reliable empirical evidence and facts, obtained by means of careful observation and experiment. God’s word reflects the truth and is truth (John 17:17). The Bible and science consider the same reality, but approach it by different methods from different standpoints⁶.

Let us start from shared concepts and practical methods, used by Psychology and Biblical Christianity.

1. Insight / repentance (change of thinking)

The main goal of Psychological help or Psychotherapy - to assist people in reaching insight or to make the unconscious conscious⁷. The Bible teaches, that in order to be saved a person must repent. Psychology does not call insight “repentance”, but in fact this transformation is repentance. The word translated as “repentance” in original Greek New Testament is “metanoia”⁸ and means, “change of thinking”.

Mental disturbances are caused by ego defense mechanisms otherwise called neurotic defense mechanisms. Those defense mechanisms blur and pervert clear thinking; people do not accept their own responsibility and believe that the source of their problems is external - in other people and circumstances. They seldom are aware of their bad thoughts, negative actions and evil they have inflicted on others. During Psychotherapy the psychologist creates a safe environment and attitude of warmth and care, mutual trust in order for a person to become able to search for truth and overcome psychological defenses. To acknowledge our personal mistakes and bad deeds in front of the other person affects the psyche (mental sphere) curatively (James 5:16)⁹.

When defenses are overcome, the goal of Psychotherapy is achieved, the person can see the real situation and accept it the way it is. It means the client reached insight and became aware of the cause of his problem.

2. Mirror or Reflection Principle

The psychologist or a training group by their actions and reactions functions as a mirror. They provide an opportunity for a person to better understand himself, to see himself from outside, as if in a mirror. In a group training setting a participant receives feedback from the group about his behavior¹⁰. Taking a good look in a mirror, he learns to better analyze his inner world and his communication with others.

The Bible calls itself a spiritual mirror: “Anyone who listens to the word… is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror” (NIV James 1:23). A person, who delves in the Word of God, has a chance to see in himself things, which he did not notice before, to become aware of his inner motives, sins and to get rid of his flaws and sins. The Apostle Paul in his letter to Timothy wrote, “All scripture… is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (KJV 2 Timothy 3:16). In the spiritual mirror of the Bible, a person can see himself more adequately and thus be corrected, perfected, to heal his mind and spirit.

3. Good Listening

One of the most important requirement for a clinical Psychologist is an ability to listen. Active reflective empathic listening means fewer words, great patience, attention to the client, understanding of him, skill to express in his own words and in nonverbal way his understanding of what the client is saying¹¹.

The Bible informs us about the importance of listening: “My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak” (NIV James 1:19); “In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise” (Proverbs 10:19); “He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him” (Proverbs 18:13).

In Person-centered Psychotherapy founded by Carl Rogers we observe the therapist is mainly listening. During such empathic listening, the therapist rephrases the statements made, and says how he understood the client, thus providing feedback for him. The Rogerian method is not limited to listening. The key element in it is the attitude of the Therapist to a client, which constitutes the famous Rogerian triad. Many psychotherapists acknowledge the necessity of those components and use them in their practice. The triad consists of Unconditional positive regard (or Unconditional acceptance), Empathy (compassion) and Congruity (authenticity, genuineness).

(1) Unconditional positive regard (or Unconditional acceptance) means a human being has to be accepted the way he is, without any conditions, regardless of his behavior. It says to a person: “I love you no matter what you do”. The Psychologist acts with great gentleness, avoiding judgmentalism and evaluation of his client’s person.

The opposite attitude is conditional acceptance (”I will love you if you behave”, “If you do good, I will care about you”). It leads to mental disturbances. This model of unconditional acceptance regardless of whether Rogers was aware of it or not is the model of God’s unconditional agape love¹² for people regardless of our sins. God’s Son did not just preach about love, but He went much farther. He proved it by His actions by taking death for us, “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (NIV Romans 5:8).

The Bible and Psychology are unanimous in the fact that norms of human relations are love and acceptance¹³. Love brings good to a lover and to a loving person, “Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the LORD your God gives you for all time” (NIV Deuteronomy 4:40). A loving and accepting person is able to lead a suffering person to healing. In this case the one in error sees his faults, an angry one repents in the evil he caused. Romans 12:20-21: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

(2) Empathy (kindness, compassion). The condition, which leads to repentance (changing of people’s thinking and attitude) is kindness. When a person who suffers experiences empathy towards himself, freedom to examine his unconsciousness appears, freedom without fear of being judged. Thus he can acknowledge himself and confess to others his secret negative motives and feelings, and to get rid of them.

Scripture says about this attitude, “God’s kindness leads you toward repentance” (Romans 2:4); “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another” (^KJV Romans 12:10).

If we want a person to change, we need to extend kindness to him, compassion and to avoid judging and condemning. ^NIV Matthew 7:1: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” NIV Romans 2:1 “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things”.

(3) Congruity (authenticity, genuineness). When we sense that a person is honest with us, we experience trust, desire to explore the whole spectrum of our inner mental world. We can notice not only those thoughts, motives and feelings, that are approved by other people; we obtain ability to make a more objective analysis.

The Bible is straightforward about telling the truth and lie (bearing false testimony); NIV Exodus 20:16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.”

Rogers believed (and I agree with him) that if congruent empathic relationships with unconditional regard are built, healing will happen unavoidably. We just need to be patient. ^KJV Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. Knowledge and special techniques are secondary or optional (1 Corinthians 8:1 “Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.”)

5. Being a True Witness

Psychology encourages people to describe what they observe in the behavior of others and name our own inner experience (feelings, impressions and motives). It discourages people from evaluating other people and talking what they assumed (guessed) about other people’s inner experience. People cannot read somebody else’s mind. In many cases those who do it do not realize what they are doing. They believe in their guesses, evaluations and assumptions as in the truth.

Once in my Sensitivity group training a student, John was exasperated with another student’s, Tom’s manner of telling jokes, “Can’t you normally tell jokes?” Tom argued back, “I tell them normally”. It turned out they were bickering about it for yeas and nothing was changing. When I suggested John to describe what exactly Tom was doing and what John feels about those actions, John finally expressed his feeling “I am angry” and informed Tom about what actions aggravate him, “I am angry, when you start laughing form the start, before you finished telling a joke”. It gave Tom a chance to realize what was happening and to change his manner of telling jokes. Their bickering stopped.

That is why true testimony must not say, “You don’t respect me”, but to describe what the person really did, that brought us to this conclusion, which can many times be false: “You did not invite me to your birthday party and I was upset” or “You told my father what I did and I felt betrayed”.

Powerful way of Christian faith and of psychological help is being a true witness, not bearing false, but true testimony. ^NIV Isaiah 43:12 You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.”

True witness bears true testimony. He has to describe what he has seen and heard, what he experiences, not what he imagined, assumed and concluded. 1 John 1:1: “^NIV That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched– this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.”

False witness talks about what he did not see, heard, touched or experienced, but of what he assumed.

^ESV Proverbs 18:2 “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.”

True witness avoids assessment or evaluation of people. True testimony provides people with objective non-interpretive feedback about their behavior. It is a condition of fixing broken relationships, it heals mind¹⁴: Matthew 7:1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.”

When God confronted Cain about the death of Abel, in the literal Hebrew God was saying, “why is your face red and why are you looking down?” (Genesis 4:6). This is the earliest example of witnessing to let the hearer evaluate the observation rather than an accusation.

Principle of bearing true testimony goes hand by hand with biblical command “Do not judge” (”Do not bear false testimony about your neighbor”) and Psychological principle “Avoid assessment or evaluation of person”¹⁵.

We do not have to evaluate people, or to stick labels on them, like “passive”, “stubborn” or “mean”. We cannot read in their hearts. ^NIV 1 Corinthians 2:11 “For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him?” Unless God supernaturally told us the secrets of their hearts¹⁶, we cannot in our natural abilities read anybody’s mind. We cannot know, why people do what they do, cannot know what they want, think, feel, how they relate to the world, to us, to other people and to God.

6. Personal Responsibility

Some theologians allege, that Psychology teaches that humans are not responsible for their behavior and that everything depends on environment and/or heredity. This statement is true only in relation to one trend of Psychology. Behaviorism considers human behavior caused by the environment¹⁷. This teaching makes human choice a delusion, because it considers our actions to be the inevitable result of external forces which are influencing us.

The Bible affirms freedom of choice (Deuteronomy 30:19)¹⁸ and personal responsibility (Ezekiel 18:20)¹⁹. Fortunately, other schools of Psychology consider people to be free responsible agents, who bear responsibility for their choices and behavior. They encourage people not to avoid responsibility, but to accept it²⁰.

Tendency to shift responsibility is typical to mankind. If something goes wrong, people more often are prone to avoid saying “I did it”, but believe that others (he, she, it, they, you) were the source of the problem. They say, “They made me do it” or “he did something wrong, that is why I messed up this”. Instead of using the personal pronoun “me” or “I” they use “we, he, she, it, they, you”. Psychologists encourage clients to speak for themselves, without ascribing to others imagined intentions and feelings, to take personal responsibility and to use “I-statements”²¹.

Thus, in interpersonal communication instead of accusing others by saying “you are too secretive” it is better to say honestly “I wish you would share with me more”; instead of “you are contradicting yourself” to say “I don’t see a connection”; instead of “You are lying” to say “I don’t believe you”. One of the first manifestations of sin was related to the shifting of responsibility. Adam blamed Eve for eating the forbidden fruit, making a hint about God, Eve blamed the snake (Genesis 3:12-13)²².

The ideal standard of perfect responsible attitude and behavior is the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Gospel of Mark He used words “I”, “Me” and “Son of Man” relating to Himself for 90 times. In the contrast pronoun “we” He used only 2 times²³.

7. Affiliation with a Person (joining, connection, adhesion)

Psychologist (helper) has to affiliate with the person he helps in his inner emotional attitudes and even in external manifestations (posture, facial expression, speech, tone of voice, etc.) Bible says in Romans 12:15: “Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.”

It is important to be not in confrontation (or opposition), but to be an ally, to support and encourage him. Opposition brings estrangement, provokes psychological defense mechanisms. Psychologist sets a personal example and encourages people not to oppose others, not to argue, not to talk somebody out of doing something. Those who believe that by means of arguments they can persuade or convert people are wrong. Titus 3:9: “But avoid foolish controversies… arguments and quarrels…, because these are unprofitable and useless.” Affiliation with the person also means to take their point of view, to reach them at the point they are, not to force them to move to our level. The Apostle Paul affiliated himself with people he was trying to win. ^NIV 1 Corinthians 9:20-21: “To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law.”In Bible study it means to join the person where they are, to start from the area of their concern, where God is working in their hearts.

Acts 8:34-35 ³⁴ The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” ³⁵ Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

So far, we found out, that there is a lot in common between Biblical Christianity and Psychology, they both have many identical aspects. The time does not allow us to go into greater detail about them²⁴. The list is not exhaustive and this research can continue.

These common characteristics between the Bible and Psychology strikingly contrast with tendencies spread around the world and popular “wisdom”. Christians might wonder how Psychologists, secular people, without studying the Scripture, without attending church, came to all that? Our answer to this question is this; The Holy Spirit works on every person’s heart.

YLT John 3:8 “the Spirit where he willeth doth blow”, not only in churches. He reveals the truth to anybody who is receptive to His voice.

Psychologists might ask other questions, “Who is the author of discovered common aspects, phenomena and methods? Who is obliged to whom? Who borrowed from whom?” Scientific honesty requires paying tribute to the source, which first mentioned a certain idea and consider him its author. Psychology appeared at the end of 19th century and due to its young age it could not influence the Bible. It is obvious, that Biblical teaching due to its ancient age, counting thousands of years, is the primary source of the mentioned theoretical ideas and practical methods of mental healing. When an author finds out, that the discovery he made was already had made earlier by somebody else, he has to refer to his predecessor in order to be true and to avoid plagiarism.

Unfortunately, non-Christian Psychologists very seldom make references to the Bible, which described all the previously mentioned and other psychological ideas and methods. My appeal to Psychologists is to adhere to research ethics and to pay respect to the primary source of Psychological ideas by referring to the Holy Scriptures.

Between Psychology and Biblical Christianity significant differences exist. Biblical teaching and faith in God and His Word supercedes Psychology in many areas. Let us notice some of those areas.

Psychological help is imperfect, because it deals with symptoms (conflicts, traumas, emotions), without addressing the real underlying cause of all mental problems. The Word of God reveals the root of all evil, the cause of mental problems and disturbances - sin. It also allows us to receive a victory over it.

The ideal concept and practice of mental (as well as physical, social and spiritual) healing is in the Scriptures. Its author is our Creator, God, Who knows our nature, the causes of our problems. He knows all the laws and methods of healing, because He is the Author of them all. He has the power to heal and is ready to reveal them to anybody, who would desire through His Word (Psalm 107:20)²⁵ and His Spirit (John 16:13)²⁶.

The Bible shows the way to the ideal (the way to holiness) through the greatest Person, Jesus Christ. The tools of Psychology can help a lot on the way to perfection, but this science is not able to redo or transform human nature from carnal or sinful into spiritual²⁷ (John 3:6)²⁸

Bible based Christianity is able to accomplish things way beyond Psychology’s reach. It can make a person able to love all people (even enemies). I was honored to meet a couple, Darold and Barbara Bigger, who not just in words, but from the heart forgave the man who brutally murdered their daughter²⁹. They said so and I believe their testimony.

Psychology can help to improve relationships with some people to a degree, but it is unable to impart the ability to love enemies.

Christian faith heals from fear of death and is able to resurrect the dead. Psychology cannot do that.

Faith in Christ gives consolation to individuals who suffer the death of loved ones and hope to meet them again. Psychology can somehow reduce the pain of loss through finding a positive meaning in the situation, when a counselor is interested, when he cares for the person and extends support and encouragement.

Faith, based on the Word of God, provides the opportunity to become aware and to solve other deep-seated problems, which Psychology considers unsolvable, for example, complete deliverance from most powerful addictions (such as nicotine, alcohol, drug, sex, gambling, pornography addictions, etc.), from pangs of conscience because of irreparable evil, from curses inherited and occurring in one’s lifetime. The effectiveness of Biblical and Psychological methods of mental healing I experienced first hand. I am familiar with both Psychology and Christianity not through hearsay.

I was raised as an atheist, in a family of 4 generations of communists, not knowing either God or the Bible. God first healed my mind through a loving person. I came to believe that only God could have done it. This curative experience stirred up my interest in mental healing and drew me to study it in depth, to understand and practice it. I have been teaching Psychology and practicing Psychotherapy for a number of years. During this time, many people have benefited from individual Counseling sessions and Group Therapy trainings.

The Bible provides a reliable criterion of defining good and evil, distinguishing right from wrong. Psychology avoids defining what is right and wrong, considering that everything depends on the personal opinion of people and anybody can believe whatever he wants. In this way the ground for future problems is set, because unrecognized accepted evil sooner or later brings forth bitter fruit. Once I happened to observe how a psychologist, who was working on a problem of stressed relationships in a family, encouraged the daughter to tell her mother, “Go to hell”. This counsel contradicts the 5th commandment, “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long” (Exodus 20:12).

The one who curses his parents spoils relationships with them and even shortens his own life. Do not misunderstand me, please. Psychology does not teach people to curse parents. However, people, being ruled only by Psychological views, without clear moral norms, which correspond with reality, not aware of the necessity to distinguish right from wrong, good from evil, can easily choose ways of evil themselves and willingly recommend them to others and end up reaping the corresponding results. Matthew 15:14: “If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Psychology while seeking to heal the human mind, is consumed with the present time, with “the here and now”³⁰, in other words, it is limited a lot to emotional and sensory levels of cognition (sight, hearing, touching, smell and taste), which the Bible calls the “carnal mind”. KJV Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

There is a certain positive sense in the method “the here and now”. The person who suffers is focused on negative experience of the past (on his traumas and resentments) or on future (on anxiety and fear about what could happen - by the way FEAR means Fantasized Experience Appearing Real). By focusing on what is happening here and now a person receives a healthier perspective. The Word of God heals from the wounds of the past and offers an opportunity to create a positive future through faith, “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” (Hebrew 11:1)

Faith provides the perspective, which is inaccessible to sensory (carnal) perception. Faith reaches out beyond carnality, into spiritual realm. Faith fulfills expected future good things in spite of what we feel here and now (in our carnal mind), reaching out in the spiritual realm. By relying on the Word of God, faith knows that God has already fulfilled our request and His promise (for example, physical healing, financial provision, etc.), which then manifests itself in reality³¹. I have witnessed multiple miracles performed by God, including healings of body and mind.

Psychology is limited in its subject (studying of behavior and psychic realm or mind). That is why it is focused only on one level, on psychological (mental) level of reality of human life and excludes other levels. In this case it produces a reduced human. Christianity takes a human as a whole, in the unity of his physical, mental, social and especially spiritual levels.

To know the limits of Psychology does not mean to underestimate it or its influence on people. It means to evaluate this influence in a more realistic way³².

If Psychology would have tackled a task beyond its strength, by encroaching in the supernatural realm with natural methods of research (such as observation and experiment), as pseudo-sciences do, it would have failed (Job 11:7). We are just outlining frontiers of Psychology, which are not limitless. Psychologists are not all-knowing and all-powerful. But God is All-knowing and All-powerful. By resorting to His power and help, by cooperating with Him, we are leaving the limits of human possibilities and acquiring access to inexhaustible source of health and healing.

Conclusion

In this article, some common ideas and methods between Psychology and Christianity are revealed. They are insight or repentance (change of thinking), mirror or reflection principle, good listening, unconditional acceptance, empathy (kindness, compassion), congruity, being a true witness, personal responsibility and affiliation with a person. The primary source of these ideas has been historically identified. Advantages of the Biblical Christianity over Psychology are shown: the Bible addresses the cause (not symptoms) of psychological disturbance, imparts ability to love enemies, brings healing from most powerful addictions, from fear of death; it considers the whole person, provides criteria of right and wrong and creates positive future.

© Copyright 2007 Tatyana Noel-Tsygulska

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