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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Modern Psychotherapies (triple helix - spring 2013)
A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal Stanton L Jones and Richard E Butman - IVP, 2011 - $32 (no UK price given) Pb 496pp - ISBN: 978-0-8308-1775-7 - Have you ever wanted to read a Christian critique of all the major forms of psychotherapy – psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioural, person-centred,...
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 - Christmas 2011)
The standard rhetoric that well designed studies have failed to show any adverse effects of abortion on women is being increasingly undermined by solid new evidence showing that there are indeed increased rates of mental health problems for women post-abortion, even where the pregnancy is unwanted...
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 young woman was brought to the health centre unconscious after her family had found her collapsed on her way to work. She failed to respond even when a lumbar puncture was undertaken without anaesthetic. All results from the tests which were available were normal. As she was transferred from...
The new Biblical Counselling: a challenge to 'Christian' psychiatrists (triple helix - Easter 2011)
Back in 1975, when I started my psychiatry training, it wasn't long before I met my first patient requesting to see 'a Christian psychiatrist'. At first I sympathised: suspicion of atheistic Freudianism had led me to commence my training with a 'Christian' consultant too. But with experience I...
Is Faith Delusion? (triple helix - Easter 2010)
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 it is not. Ranging widely, he includes a chapter on the history of...
Fatal distraction (triple helix - Christmas 2009)
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 suicidally ingested antifreeze. (1) It appears that she had...