When I speak of the intersection of faith and psychology I mean your faith and your healing.
Psychology is a science and science often disregards faith as a superstition from a bygone era. However, a deeper look reveals they overlap in significant ways.
Psychology and faith both seek to save people from their self-centered, self-destructive tendencies. Psychology looks within the individual for answers while religion finds its answers in God.
Religion may seek to cast out demons but so does psychology. They just call them by different names. Religion calls it sin and offers forgiveness. Psychology calls it narcissism, trauma, and depression and seeks to understand and heal it.
Faith and psychology need not be enemies. Jesus scolded John the Baptist when he came running breathlessly complaining about false disciples casting out demons. Exasperated, Jesus corrected him saying, “Do not stop him. Whoever is not against you is for you.”
