Psychology as Religion

Counseling/psychotherapy (psychology) no longer stands as the science of behavior, but as the guardian of the soul, the maker of value, the determiner of morality, the definer of freedom.  That which began as a true science of behavior has degenerated into a neo-religious cult.  In the place of God is man.  In the place of the priest (minister) is the psychologist.  In the place of the Word is psychotherapy.  In the place of confession//forgiveness is interpretation (or one of its many equivalents).  Counseling/psychotherapy (psychology) emerges as the practical twentieth-century religion.  Here the deception of neutrality is revealed.

Richard Ganz, PsychoBabble: The Failure of Modern Psychology -- and the Biblical Alternative, p.47