The therapeutic approaches, which started with Freud, have a basic assumption that is not Christian. The starting point is not the Christian worldview, which is summed up in the parable of the prodigal son. A fallen and sinful world with persons needing God the Father to forgive them so they can return to be his sons and daughters. The therapeutic, unlike the Christian, starting point is that the individual must overcome personal unconscious forces in Freud, and in Carl Jung the person must unite to the collective unconscious which is shared by all humans. In both cases, the therapist assists his client to change himself to 'become his real self.' What are needed are not God and His Forgiveness, but a therapist assisting a self to reach the fullness of itself.
https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2006/11/nietzschean-psychology.html
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