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Executive Summary — Psychology on Trial: Therapy, Fragmentation, and the Tribunal of Conscience
This podcast episode examines the Tribunal of Conscience’s judgment on psychology as a discipline, testing whether its framework endures under the strain of truth, love, and justice.
- Section I: Background and Framework
- Defines psychology and its modern aims, highlighting its role in interpreting suffering, identity, and personal meaning.
- Section II: Tribunal Judgment
- Critiques psychology as a false form, arguing that:
- Its fragmented account of personhood collapses when ultimate unity is demanded.
- Its understanding of love reduces to emotional or therapeutic categories, lacking fullness.
- Its approach to justice remains therapeutic rather than moral, unable to address structural wrongs.
- Concludes that psychology collapses under ultimate strain.
- Section III: Evaluation of the Judgment
- Acknowledges the Tribunal’s strengths in exposing psychology’s limits.
- Notes potential weaknesses: overstating the need for unity and undervaluing psychology’s therapeutic impact.
- Section IV: Tribunal Response
- Directly addresses these counterarguments.
- Restates that psychology’s therapeutic strength does not equate to moral coherence.
- Reaffirms the judgment that psychology, as a form, is ultimately false under triune strain.
- Section V: Invitation to the Listener
- Challenges listeners to weigh both perspectives in conscience.
- The question is left open: is psychology a valuable but partial tool or a false form that cannot bear the weight of ultimate truth, love, and justice?
☩ Tribunal of Conscience ☩
Truth. Love. Justice.
All episodes are part of the ongoing work of the Tribunal of Conscience — testing forms under the triune strain to reveal what holds and what collapses.
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