"Modern Psychotherapies"

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This paper explains that, over the course of the text, authors Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman survey and evaluate the most significant psychotherapeutic outlooks of the contemporary era in an objective but theologically oriented fashion. It then explains how Jones and Butman evaluate the potential relevance of these theories to Christian, Biblical therapeutic counseling. They begin with the historical and conceptual origins of modern psychology, providing an overview of eleven of the most accepted psychological rubrics.

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"After a brief but clear overview of Freudian analysis, they move onto the history of B.F. Skinner and the behaviorist's techniques of modification through conditioning, as well as existential therapy, family therapy, and Jungian therapy. All of the therapies discussed by the author share a common theme, however-they attempt to understand the role of the human psyche and moral consciousness. Are we part of a collective, mythical unconsciousness, as suggested by Jung, or part of an age-old primeval drama as suggested by Freud's reconfiguring of the drama of Oedipus?"

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