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Essay / Analysis of the Bible and psychology - 1013
Dr. John H. Stoll, director of the Christian Psychological Clinic in Minneapolis, details these motivations in his article titled “The Bible and Psychology.” Stoll highlights four main motivations of human beings based on biblical study: the fear-anxiety-apprehension syndrome, the anger-hostility-hate syndrome, the depression-guilt-psychological pain syndrome, and destructive selfishness (“ The Bible and psychology). Additionally, Dr. Stoll highlights four negative emotional needs common to all human beings: affection, acceptance, appreciation, and achievement. These eight ideas form the basis of most, if not all, human motivation and can be combined and rearranged to explain both large-scale trends and small-scale actions of a