The Failure of Evangelical Mental Health Care (Paperback)

from whoizme8

Where to even begin? I am an evangelical. I graduated from a Methodist College with a degree in psychology and followed it up with a M.Div at Garrett-Evangelical, a United Methodist Seminary. Even with my training in college and some in seminary, I would never have tried to help anyone with a ser...

from madhatter73

The author concludes that in the majority of cases mental disorders are blamed on two main issues--sin and demonic possession/oppression--that as a result some communities have become a mental health underclass who are ill-served or oppressed by both alternative and mainstreem evangelical therape...

from sharamassey2014

Good book! Very informative and makes a good point (although maybe not directly) as to how religious doctrine takes away from the true spirit of Christ that is the true healing power. It's distressing that some so called Christians cause so much pain on others by perverting even this. My opinion,...

from KindlyCat

Somewhat interesting. I am skeptical of all psychiatric counseling and am aware of many horrors that have occurred by so called "Christian" counselors. So this was a "tongue-in-cheek" read for me. The info may help some who are looking for different methods of counseling...possibly not.

from RonStarcher

The Failure of Evangelical Health Care: Treatments that Harm Women, LBGT Persons and the Mentally Ill offered no surprises. The author is firmly convinced that religion provides no real help in treating people with mental illness, women, and LBGT individuals. He has placed a bull eye on the evang...