Introduction In Psychobabble Richard Ganz defines modern psychology as "psychobabble". Dr. Ganz is a Jewish Christian who, prior to his conversion to Christ, earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He served on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York and taught at the local university. After giving his life to Christ, he was dismissed from his position because he could not separate his faith from his practice. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary and worked with Dr. Jay Adams at the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation. He has since lectured at major secular universities, including Harvard. He is the senior pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ottawa and the founder and president of the Ottawa Theological Hall, where he is also a professor of psychology and biblical counseling. His other books include Take Charge of Your Life Before It Takes Charge of You, Twenty Controversies That Almost Killed a Church, The Secret of Self-Control, Thou Shalt Not Kill: The Christian Case Against Abortion, and Freedom truly: escape bondage and brokenness for Freedom in Christ. Psychobabble develops the biblical counseling theme that pastoral care has been abdicated to secular psychology and the dangers of integrating worldly theories into biblical care of the soul.ContentsDr. Ganz states that his goal is to “help readers understand that the counseling concepts woven into psychoanalysis (and its secular psychotherapeutic offshoots) are intrinsically opposed to the Word of God.” His goal is to “reveal the direct conflict” between the two and “bring them back to their ugly… middle of paper… because the church will stop shuffling its wounded and broken members for “experts” who lack power and the perspective of the Word of God, that pastors will instead seize opportunities to teach, rebuke, correct, and train in righteousness a people fit for the service of King Jesus” (27). Unfortunately, in the twenty years since the book was published, the church still has a long way to go before realizing Dr. Gantz's hope. Conclusion Psychobabble: The Failure of Modern Psychology and the Biblical Alternative by Dr. Richard Gantz is an excellent book for anyone interested in pursuing a biblical counseling ministry indispensable for understanding the conflict between biblical counsel and man's theories. Dr. Gantz's book can be a very important tool in returning to God's view of man by advising and rejecting man's coddling and self-aggrandizing views..