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Race, women and health · Claim record

In January 1963 The Watchtower told readers that 'Just how scientific psychoanalysis really is no one is certain', that 'At best it leaves much to be desired', and named Freud with Darwin, Marx and the higher critics as having 'played a sinister role in destroying the guiding influence of the Bible for many'.

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Explicit statement · 15 January 1963 Verified

In January 1963 The Watchtower told readers that 'Just how scientific psychoanalysis really is no one is certain', that 'At best it leaves much to be desired', and named Freud with Darwin, Marx and the higher critics as having 'played a sinister role in destroying the guiding influence of the Bible for many'. The Watchtower, 15 January 1963

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The Watchtower, “Where to Turn for Counsel”

15 January 1963 · pp.37-39 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Just how scientific psychoanalysis really is no one is certain. At best it leaves much to be desired. Its aim to help people achieve a normal capacity for living is not wrong, but some of its methods are.”

An article surveying sources of advice — newspaper columns, marriage counsellors, psychoanalysis — and directing readers instead to the Bible and to the congregation. It names Wellhausen's school of higher critics, Darwin, Freud and Marx together as having 'played a sinister role in destroying the guiding influence of the Bible for many'.

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Confidence note. Full article text read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; page markers in the page's own HTML place the quoted paragraph on page 38.

Notes. The earliest clearly stated reservation about psychoanalysis that could be located in the library, which holds The Watchtower from 1950.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-w-1963-0115-where-to-turn

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