Author: Struthers, William M.

Journal of Psychology & Christianity, Vol. 24(3), Fall 2005, pp. 195-209

Abstract:

In The Snark was a Boojum, Frank Beach addressed the concern that comparative psychogists set out to study the behavior of a variety of species (the Snark), yet they ended up focusing on a single model: the white rat. The Boojum, he discovered from the literature was that they were not doing comparative psychology. Over the last 30 years, a great amount of effort has been directed towards the integration of Christianity and psychology. In this article, a question similar to Beach’s is raised. Is integration a Snark or a Boojum. An analysis of articles from two periodicals involved in integration suggests that clinical and theoretical psychologists have published extensively and found their Snark. In contrast, empirical research in the more experimental fields is nearly absent, suggesting either that in these sub-disciplines integration is a Boojum, or an alternative framework is in place.