...a high-self-esteem-will-help-you-low-self-esteem-will-hurt-you formula is not biblical. Nor is it proven in the research. It is unfortunate that many Christian leaders and psychologists have chosen to promote self-esteem. Self-fulfillment, self-actualization, self-love, and the other combinations and permutations of self-enlarging words are just various facets of the desire to be like God which originated in the Garden of Eden. Amalgamating Scripture with psychology [1] only baptizes the flesh with the Holy Water of the Word, but it is a false message.

Martin & Deidre Bobgan, Psychoheresy,Eastgate Publishers, 1987

p. 67