Naturalism's Stranglehold

For those engaged in counseling at any level, not least pastors, the shift in psychiatry (not recent) from psychoanalysis to biopsychiatry is of immense interest and significance.  Charles Barber, a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale University, wrote this in the Winter 2008 Wilson Quarterly:

The field [psychiatry] has so thoroughly cast its lot with biology, and with the biology induced by psychoative drugs, that psychiatrists can hardly hope to publish in one of the mainstream journals if their article tells the story of an individual patient, or includes any personal thoughts or feelings about the people or the work that patient was engaged with, or fails to include a large dose of statistical data.  Psychiatry used to be all theories, urges, and ids.  Now it's all genes, receptors, and neurotransmitters.

Sow modernism and naturalism, and reap the same.  The naturalistic, evolutionary worldview (with all its assumptions) has such a hold on the society and culture, and Christians had better be able to identify this, and think through how to speak to it.  Christians must not only not get snookered by this so-called objective science that comes at us all sophisticated as biology and no more, but even more importantly we must present an alternative counseling worldview that speaks more poignantly to reality (where people really live and how we're actually made up) and more efficaciously to the human condition (in all of our fallenness and complexity).