Sigmund Freud’s Psychology of Religion — Applications to Religious Scrupulosity

T. W. Moore
12 min readJan 19, 2022

Even in 2022, if you were to ask the average Westerner what name comes to mind when you say the word psychology, they would answer Sigmund Freud. Indeed, Freud’s impact on the field of psychology and to Western thought, in general, cannot be understated.

T. W. Moore

Author of “A Voice From Inside” | JW PIMO | Writing about Psychology, Mental Health, Religious Trauma & Jehovah’s Witnesses.