TIL 313: Dangers of Eclecticism (feat. Sam Stephens)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
1. Defining Eclecticism
2. Various Approaches to Psychology
3. The Results of an Eclectic Approach to Counseling
4. The Dangers of Eclecticism in the Biblical Counseling Movement
The Psychological Anthropology of Wanye Edwards Oates here
The Professionalization of Pastoral Care in America here
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| 0:00.0 | dangers of eclecticism on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified |
| 0:16.4 | Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.0 | And in our final segment of Mental Health Awareness Month, releasing on this final day of May, |
| 0:29.8 | we want to tackle a couple of things. Sam is here with me again, Sam Stevens, our |
| 0:34.2 | director of Training Center certification here at ACBC. |
| 0:37.9 | Many of you know him and know him well. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm so grateful for the friend that he is to me, but also the support that he is in the office. |
| 0:44.7 | He just does tremendous work, keeping people organized and going. |
| 0:48.3 | And I float ideas, and Sam puts them in an organizational fashion on paper, and we make it sing together. |
| 0:56.3 | And so I appreciate that, Sam. |
| 0:58.0 | And so we're going to finish up today. |
| 0:59.7 | We've been talking about this article that came out in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry back in 2020. |
| 1:06.7 | And it's interesting because now you have, man, a myriad of secular starting to recognize some of the difficulties with biological psychiatry. |
| 1:15.1 | And we're going to continue that discussion, but then take it a little bit further so we can see how this sort of comes to land where we are. |
| 1:22.4 | And it is important. |
| 1:23.9 | And this is only one aspect, what we're talking about today, what we're calling eclecticism. |
| 1:28.6 | Let me see if I can make this train, Sam, if I can do this, and how we get from our discussion about biological psychiatry, |
| 1:35.3 | the misrepresentations of literature that describe these problems of mental health, these problems of mental disorders, if you will. |
| 1:43.9 | The dangers that we see consistently with the |
| 1:46.8 | biological narrative, it's detriment of reductionism, right? Not looking at the entirety of |
| 1:53.6 | humanity, but sort of seeing the primacy of biology over all things and having that as a singular |
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