Psychiatry - General & Miscellaneous, Christianity - General & Miscellaneous, Psychology & Religion, Psychotherapy
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Overview
Before Freud, Christian theologians and psychiatrists rarely talked with one another about emotional suffering. But Freud brought psychiatry out of the asylum into everyday life, and Christians could no longer ignore it. What ensued were decades of often hostile and rarely constructive debate between theologians and psychiatrists. Now, in large part, the debate is over. But, argues psychiatrist (and Christian) Dan Blazer, it ended too soon, and altogether unsatisfactorily. For their part, Christians have baptized and adopted some of the worst aspects of psychiatry. And psychiatrists have cut themselves off from the "soul" - deep issues of meaning and community that animate all genuinely human life. Freud vs. God aims to rekindle the debate, to shatter the "comfortable accommodation" between Christianity and psychiatry, and in so doing to restore the soul to psychiatry and the mind to Christianity. This important and provocative book is must reading for all psychiatrists, theologians, pastors, counselors and interested laypersons.Editorials
Books & Culture: A Christian Review
...[Laments that] the existential pain and subjective experience of psychiatric illness are of little interest to modern psychiatrists [while] the philosophical and theological implications of disorders of the brain and modern psychological therapies are of little interest to Christian theologians.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1998
Publisher
Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c1998.
Pages
253
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780830815470