Here is Calvin, for example, on the command to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Now there is truth, of course, in what Calvin says, as I will argue later. There certainly is such a thing as sinful self-love, the Bible speaks of it often. And these sinful commitments to oneself, this self-idolatry, is a passion of terrible power. We know that.
Psychology admires self-love and fosters it while the Bible hates and condemns it.
I was reading just this past week a study highly critical of psychological approaches to human behavior. Eventually one of his prescriptions was to, in essence, honor herself. The psychologists are not wrong in observing that man seeks security and significance. The church is wrong in failing to point this out as a mark of our fallen nature. Now, you know that I have little sympathy for modern psychological views of humanity and of human behavior.