Article archive / November 1, 2016
Originally published: . Volume 7, No. 11. Source pages: 5.
“Psychology has caused more problems than it has solved for American parents,” said John Rosemond, the popular national columnist and talk show host, who spoke at a recent presentation at a Louisiana parochial school, according to several sources.
Delivering his opinions about parenting, children, parents and marriage, Mr. Rosemond made it clear that he viewed psychology as part of the problem and not to be trusted.
Sources reported that Rosemond told an audience that psychology is not a science and that there is no evidence that psychologists help anyone.
He also misquoted research, sources said, and one explained that his comments could have easily confused the public about aspects of evidence-based, psychological science. “It was disconcerting,” the undisclosed source said.
Blasting psychology is common pastime for the popular columnist, speaker, and talk show personality. On his radio show on the American Family Radio channel, he has remarked that there was no evidence that psychologists have a beneficial impact.
“I know from an insider’s perspective that psychology is a secular religion that one believes in by faith,” Rosemond said on his radio show.
“I also know from an insider’s perspective that psychology has caused more problems for the American child, the American family, school, marriage, parents, …”
“Christians should not, and I mean not, be involved with psychologists period, end of statement. And I make no exceptions to that rule. Christian counseling or biblical counseling that’s an entirely different thing. But stay away from anyone who uses the word psychology or psychologist in their title or their promotional materials,” Mr. Rosemond told his listeners.
“And I am extremely disturbed, and I am not the only person in American who is, but I am, very disturbed, that churches and Christian universities have let psychology in through the backdoor and sometimes the front door.”
In 2015 Rosemond won an appeal against the Kentucky psychology board who said he was practicing psychology without a license in the state, based on his appearances and columns.
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