ABSTRACT
It is ironic that, given their interest in the dynamics of the human mind, psychotherapists have until very recently failed to notice that their own relationship with religion has remained rather static. Psychotherapists have been influenced in a peculiar way by their founders a way which has prevented them from embracing religion and its associated spirituality. Contemporary psychotherapy has a problem with religion, in so far as it has censored out any positive significance religion may have, instead choosing to relate to it as something to be treated or ignored. Sigmund Freud and Carl Ransom Rogers were each inspirational figures whose own negative relationship with religion prevented them from seeing a bigger picture. Freud's followers had to overcome their adopted belief that all religion is indicative of illness, and Rogers' followers knew, until his final years, that religion was a taboo subject.
