EP. 14 Humankind & Counseling Part 1: Establishing A Humanistic Worldview of Anthropology

Episode Notes: 

• Establishing both views; secular worldview on anthropology and a biblical worldview of anthropology.  
• Humanism began to take an overt stance in psychology by Abraham Maslow, founder of humanistic psychology.  
• Humanism has man at the center of everything.  
• Egocentrism unfortunately has crept into the evangelical church with its ear tickling.  
  • Symptom alleviation, better circumstances, etc.  
• Darwinian evolution had a huge impact on psychology.  
  • The world started from primordial soup, and over billions of years, we evolved from fish to philosophers - being factious.  
• Freud - psychosexual development - all our human development has a foundation in our sexuality.  
  • Id - darker side, tempted us, superego - our conscience, ego - the mediator  
• Our view of human nature drives our diagnostic framework.  
• Carl Rogers believed - non directional approach, given a positive direction, the client would find their potential and flourish.  
• Our view of human nature not only tells us what’s wrong but also provides a prescription to make things right.  
• Alfred Kinsey - father of propagating the sexual revolution.  

Show Resources: 

• Biblical Counseling Basics - Jeremy Lelek