The term applies to the spiritualizing of psychology as well. For example, transpersonal psychology, the field's latest stage, has vocabulary and concepts which are blatantly religious. We have championed the return of spirit to therapy. We recognize that there are endeavors which would come under the umbrella of psychology and which fall outside the above description and its related concerns. However, the very few exceptions to the multibillion-dollar field of psychotherapy and its accompanying markets are hardly a redeeming factor.
Psychological counseling is a religious wolf in pseudoscientific clothing.
The idea that man can add anything to God's way is utter folly. Yet as obvious as that answer should be, the psychospifitual delusion continues to grow. Last summer 50,000-plus gathered in Colorado for the Promise Keepers Christian Men's Conference. Two of the main speakers at the conference were psychologist James Dobson and psychology popularizer Gary Smalley. Keen's books feature vicious diatribes against biblical Christianity.