no its a good post and there is nothing I could disagree with here at all. of course you are right to say that it depends upon your starting point.
I first read your post last night but was too tired to take it in but it lead me to think of a book by a child psychologist that I read many years ago called ''Dibs': in search of self' (the author was Virginia Axline). This was the kind of psychology which allowed a child who was totally locked into himself to sit in a playpit full of toys and sand and act out his problems whilst the psychologist doesnt do much more than help him to express things that children find impossible to express because they dont have the words. It is an immensely inspiring book (because of Dibs himself of course)and it was a huge influence upon me. It was one of the reasons I decided to go into teaching. Another great influence was John Holt's 'How Children Learn' and 'How children fail' [which I would like to believe is still compulsory reading for all would-be teachers although I somehow doubt it.]
Since then though things have changed a huge amount in the psychological field and my own experience of it on the 'course' I had to attend was fairly disturbing because it seemed so darkly manipulative; starting, as it clearly did, from the notion of the devious and utterly selfish nature of the'criminal mind'. It couldnt have been further from the wonderful natural healing that Axline describes in her book.
And so yes I agree it is the starting point that matters here but also perhaps the ending point too. Any psychologist who has an aim in mind seems to me to be creating a dead-end of the darkest sort because the first need of each one of us is to be able to 'look at the sky and dream'. There! that's just the kind of thing that Dibs would have said! but that is really what our utterly open-ended relationship with God not just allows us to do but insists that we do.
Come to think of it, it's time for me to hunt out that little book again and to anyone who hasnt read it, you really really must!
In the meantime I'm afraid I am doomed to be deeply suspicious of the psychologist for the foreseeable future. They have immense power in an age when the scientist is worshipped: if not by the man in the street, certainly by the powers that be.