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EARLY CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY Modern medical psychology is often known as abnormal psychology. The aim of modern psychology is most often very different from the Christian therapeutic method, whose primary aim could be regarded technically - in modern terms - as both 'normal' and developmental. When we speak about therapy as developmental, we speak about particular kinds of therapy and about a forgotten psycho-spiritual process: at first it is psychological, but it can lead not only to solving certain of life's problems, but also to a spiritual awakening. To approach it first from the psychological viewpoint, we need to overcome certain difficulties. The first of these is the difficulty people today have in understanding that a full spiritual life is prevented by the unfinished state of our psyche, in order to develop spiritually we first need to understand our own psychology and its natural impulses toward spirituality. Both modern religion and modern psychology have tended to ignore the fact that many individuals are naturally drawn to understand these inner processes and express these normally suppressed components of their nature. Understand what this actually means. Although therapeutic in nature, its concept of therapy was developmental: it sought to remedy mental distress by developing, not suppressing, the innate potential of the individual. In the present age, knowledge of the full development possible to man is not widespread, although many ineffectual or incomplete teachings about it exist. For this and other reasons, few people today understand or even begin to fulfil this possibility in their lives.
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