Article January 12, 1946 Issue

True Psychology

JEAN MC GEORGE WATSON

When confronted by theories of experimental psychology and their application to human affairs, a Christian Scientist may profitably read and ponder Mary Baker Eddy's statement regarding psychology. Years before the public embraced the popular interest in psychology, Mrs. Eddy wrote in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 369), "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood."

When this Science of Spirit, the true psychology, is understood by the Christian Scientist, how needless and inadequate does he find pseudoscientific theories and methods to be. If he is alert, he realizes that, whereas he may formerly have felt dependent upon the various systems of mental analysis for the solution of human problems, now the understanding of God as Spirit, Mind, and of man as the expression of God, is sufficient to enable him to achieve success in all right activities in which he may be engaged.

The student finds he is able in some measure to prove the words of Christ Jesus, "I can of mine own self do nothing" (John 5:30). and, "When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things" (John 8:28). He discovers his ability enhanced as his concept of man is spiritualized. He strives to apply his understanding of the Christ, the true idea of God and man, to his human experience.

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