Rehabilitating Psychology

Sacred Psychology - A Global Perspective - Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

Samuel Bendeck Sotillos [+-]
Psychotherapist
Samuel Bendeck Sotillos, PsyD, LMFT, LPCC, CCMHC, NCC, CPRP, CCTP, MHRS, is a practicing psychotherapist who has worked for many years in the field of mental health and social services. His focus is on comparative religion and the intersection between culture, spirituality, and psychology. His recent works include The Quest For Who We Are: Modern Psychology and the Sacred (2023), Paths That Lead to the Same Summit: An Annotated Guide to World Spirituality (2020), and Dismantling Freud: Fake Therapy and the Psychoanalytic Worldview (2020).

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We highlight the profound inadequacies of modern Western psychology that prevent it from being an effective therapy for humanity at large. This is due to its desacralized foundations and blind adherence to a scientistic and materialistic outlook that rejects transcendence. Paradoxically, the present-day mental health calamity can only be understood in light of the spiritual crisis of the modern world, which is the very same malady that gave birth to modern psychology in the first place. Notwithstanding the ongoing availability of time-honored spiritual insights concerning the human mind and its potential as found in all traditional cultures, modern psychology continues to arrogantly assert its supremacy despite a demonstrable failure to relieve the suffering of countless souls.

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Bendeck Sotillos, Samuel . Rehabilitating Psychology. Sacred Psychology - A Global Perspective. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. May 2025. ISBN 9781800505742. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=45983. Date accessed: 12 Nov 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.45983. May 2025

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