psychiatry
Mental health issues raise interesting questions for Christians. These items explore psychiatry from a Christian perspective, and consider the impact of spirituality on psychiatric illness.
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Existential Anxiety: Between Faith and Despair (triple helix - spring 2012)
Pablo Martinez on anxiety and faith in Jesus Christ As the deer pants for streams for water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God' (1) Anxiety is one of the most common medical conditions today affecting about 20% of the population. Almost half of the...
Mind & Soul (triple helix - spring 2012)
Rob Waller shares his experiences of working with Christians struggling with mental health issues. key points - As a trainee psychiatrist the author became increasingly frustrated with the failure of the Church to deal sensitively with issues of mental health and began to blog about his learning...
The Worry Book (triple helix - spring 2012)
Finding a path to freedom Will van der Hart and Rob Waller Inter-Varsity Press, 2011 £7.99 Pb 176pp ISBN 978 1 84474 543 2 Dedicated to those who worry The Worry Book offers 'a path to freedom'. With an attractive cover and written by two directors of the popular Mind and Soul website, the book...
Abortion and mental health - the evidence builds (triple helix - winter 2011)
key points - The link between induced abortion and mental health problems has often been dismissed on the basis of lack of any compelling academic evidence however the author suggests this dominant view may be challenged by new research. Coleman's review asserts that as many as 10 per cent of all...
Dr Pablo Martinez: CMF Psychiatry Conference 2011
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Dr Pablo Martinez gave a talk to the 2011 CMF Psychiatry Day Conference called 'Between despair and faith: the meaning of existential anxiety'.
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Cross-cultural challenge (triple helix - summer 2011)
A member working in West Africa recalss what led her to spend a year at Bible college in Kenya. key points - A case history of a girl in West Africa thought by her family to be affected by evil spirits caused a CMF member to study the Bible further on these matters. She chose to do so in an African...
The new Biblical Counselling: a challenge to 'Christian' psychiatrists (triple helix - spring 2011)
key points - Abbreviating a talk given at the CMF psychiatrists' day conference in 2010, the author reflects on his own development as a Christian wanting to relate his faith to his practice. In the 'levels of explanation' model, psychiatry approaches human suffering at one level of explanation and...
Is Faith Delusion? (triple helix - spring 2010)
Andrew Sims Continuum 2009 £14.99 Pb 237pp ISBN 978 1 84706 340 3 - Andrew Sims, CMF member and former President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and professor at Leeds, considers the question: is faith delusion? He presents the evidence concerning religion and mental health and explains why...
Fatal distraction (triple helix - winter 2009)
Unqualified patient autonomy harms the heart of medicine - At a resumed inquest in October, the Coroner ruled that doctors at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital had acted correctly in not giving any lifesaving treatment to 26 year old Kerrie Wooltorton when she was admitted in 2007 having...
Abortion and mental health (triple helix - winter 2009)
More methodologically robust evidence - Until recent research from New Zealand (1) it was a medical mantra that it was safer for a mother's mental health to have an abortion than to continue with the pregnancy. I have twice reviewed this topic (2)(3) and in further developments about abortion...