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Recent books by Erich Fromm and by Ira Progoff indicate >the intrinsic relationship between psychological integration and the religious quest.< There seems to be a return of psychology to religion and a movement of religion toward psychology. >What can we say about the great, ongoing, historically rooted struggle between religion and science? Any student of technical philosophy and of the history of thought will see in the present situation, I believe, a clear example of the Hegelian dialectic. Religion was the original thesis; science in general, and psychology in particular, was the antithesis. And today, it appears that a great, new synthesis is in the making.< Comments are made on each of the 4 symposium papers. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Fromm's theoretical position of the >Marketing Orientation< is related to counseling attitudes and aspects of the counselor-patient relationship. Conflicting sets of value orientation are described and their influence noted. The author's primary thesis has been that the counseling psychologist often adopts a conflicting set of value orientations in his relationships with patients and the community. In some relationships, the counselor may respond to the patient primarily in terms of the latter's inherent potential with no reference to his >marketable< characteristics, but at other times he may lay heavy emphasis upon the patient's marketability. Also observed is the fact that the counselor is often totally unaware of his reversal of attitudes and of its effects upon patients. It has been suggested that although the emphasis upon a marketing orientation may foster lessened self-esteem in some patients, the adoption of such an attitude may be a necessary first stage in helping patients who have been hospitalized with psychotic episodes to leave the hospital setting. In any case, it is crucial for the counselor to be aware of his underlying value assumptions in order that his relationships to patients will be characterized by an underlying consistency.