DESCRIPTION: Both articles were written by Piotr Olaf Żylicz, a Polish psychologist specializing in moral psychology and business psychology. He graduated in psychology from the Catholic Theological Academy in Warsaw (now UKSW). In 1995, he obtained a doctorate in humanities from the same university. The articles are two parts of a discussion on the relationship between psychology and religion. "The material presented does not describe all the existing links between the two disciplines, although an effort has been made to show as many different aspects of these relationships as possible. Some issues (such as the problem of worldview conditioning or the presence of religion in psychotherapy) have been treated much more extensively, mainly because they are subjectively more interesting to the author than others (e.g., problems concerning psychology as a science). At the same time, Christian systems and aspects of psychotherapy, as well as the entire issue of pastoral psychology, have been omitted and will be discussed in the second, separate part of the article” (Part I, p. 101). "The continuation of the reflections from Part I, and at the same time an introduction to the main parts of the article, will be a critical analysis of contemporary psychology from a Christian point of view. On the one hand, it shows the areas of conflict with so-called secular psychology, and on the other hand, it defines some of the conditions that Christian psychology should meet. Whether such psychology is considered necessary and possible to create is the main problem which the author will attempt to answer, albeit in outline, in this (i.e. Part II) part of the article." (Part II, p. 201). The presence of psychological topics in SPCh is not accidental. Although the vast majority of the published texts are philosophical works, for some time publications in the field of psychology also appeared regularly (mainly in the 1970s and 1980s). This was related, among other things, to the establishment of a psychology program at the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology of the ATK at that time and the expansion of the number of psychology departments within the faculty. Initially, the staff of these departments did not have their own specialized journal, so their research results were published in SPCh. "It seems that, on the one hand, it is worthwhile to seek an integrated image of man – after all, there can only be one truth about him – but on the other hand, it is probably not appropriate to construct separate theoretical systems of Christian psychology, but rather to make a constant assessment and comparison of what is happening in psychology from a Christian perspective. However, those forms of Christian psychology that are oriented towards practical goals, such as the above-mentioned varieties of psychotherapy or pastoral psychology, have, in my opinion, a justified raison d'être and should not raise concerns that unacceptable psychological truths are being adopted in such cases" (Part II, p. 211).
CONTENTS: Part I: 1. Introduction. 2. Psychology as a “religion.” 3. The problem of philosophical and worldview assumptions. 4. The scope of religious issues in psychology. 5. Factors influencing research on religion and religiosity. 6. Psychology of religion. 7. Religious issues in the context of psychotherapy. 8. Conclusion. Part II: 1. Introduction, 2. Christian criticism of contemporary psychology 3. Christian psychology in theory and practice 3.1 Attempts to integrate psychology and theology 3.2. Christian psychotherapy 3.3. Pastoral psychology 4. Conclusion.
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