Psychology had to be a science studying behaviour and mind of living beings.
There is a separate part of it studying specifically human behaviour and mind.
However, there is absolutely no any definition of how exactly human behaviour and mind different from non-human ones and how to separate one from another.
So, psychology can't even give an answer to the very basic question that obviously should precede any further study - is some person mind and behaviour human or non-human?
Psychology could have been very useful instrument to detect those with non-human behaviour and mind among us with scientific precision, but it was purposedly turned into pseudoscience bullshit to not even allow that question.
Yes, Christian Church is definitely much closer to psychology even scientifically than that modern "psychology science". And have much longer expertise in that field.
Exactly. Also modern psychology is trying to replace Church in the field of resolving soul problems, not with repentance and learning the lesson, but with acceptance and self-forgiveness with all consequences.
Shrinks are modern-day priests of the secular materialist cult. Just think about it - people go to shrinks and share all their secrets, sins and thoughts. But shrinks are all too human and don't have connection to the transcendental - they are just geeks with a degree who charge by the minute. The whole thing emulates the holy mystery of confession but in a worldly manner.
Not just geeks - they passed a specific rithual of receiving psychologist diploma. :)
You are right about psychology as a replacement for religious practices.
Interesting, that unlike psychology, Church distiguished human and non-human mind. Priests have some procedure to distinct between posessed and bliss f.e. One is non-human and other is human. So, one needs exorcism to get rid of non-human mind, other need mercy and charity. Psychologist will account both just as diverse human.
Yes, that's an important distinction. Psychology is based on humanism - the subjective human mind (more like brain and senses, because there's no mind/brain distinction in the naturalist view) is at the center of everything. They can't distinguish between a limited subjective human mind, that is made in the image of God, and the universal omniscient mind of God that grounds all knowledge and that is ultimately what our minds correspond to and appeal to when making absolute truth statements about reality (like 2+2=4, laws of logic, laws of physics or "all x are y" propositions).
The scientismo crowd has no grasp of serious philosophy (including philosophy of science) and how their lack of such a universal quantifier ultimately makes all knowledge impossible, leading to epistemological nihilism.