Yakar, they are incompatible. In previous generations,the shtetl and
before,they didn't have psychotherapy. They had an alternative; Gemillut
Chassaddim! (Acts of Kindness). As far as theory goes, psychology is
incompatible with Torah. A scientific approach to man ,known as positivism,
dehumanizes man. Science studies things not people, much less Neshamos
(souls). Psychological theory reflects the values of the culture from
whence it comes. Academic University psychology is conformist, anti-Torah
ideology.
Rabbi Avigdor Miller says in "Sing you Righteous" something along the lines
of psychology not being the cure, but the disease itself. Freud, enemy of
the Torah, wrote his psychology to help Jews defect from Torah, part of
the massive defection over the last 150 years. Jung supported Hitler, gave
the German speaking intellectual community an endorsement of Nazism, and as
a therapeutic technique, comforted his patients in bed. Jungian psychology
has led countless Jews to join cults, especially Eastern religions, because
his 'collective unconscious' contains a collection of cults and alien
religions. Existentialism is just a front for Christianity. Rabbi Tauber
points out that Viktor Frankl's Logothrapy is akin to idol worship; as
opposed to the Jewish Objective - G-D, independent of our wishes , Frankl
proposes as therapy a subjective god, made in our own image. 'Meaning in
life', Frankl's therapeutic slogan is 'meaning' created by ourselves, an
extension of ourselves rather than the objective Truth out there! Maslow,
Rogers, Allport, May, Fromm et al. are merely a celebration of American
values, conformist psychology in an age of conformism.