The a Christian psychiatrist looks at depression and suicide White, John 1924-2002 creator text enk Leicester Inter-Varsity 1982 monographic eng

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252 pages : 3 illustrations ; 18 cm Part one: Christianity and mental illness -- 1. The difference in depression -- Scenario 1: Silent as stone -- Scenario 2: Troubled for weeks -- Scenario 3: What about forgiveness -- Scenario 4: Needing a workout -- Defying definition -- 2. Sin, disease and the devil -- Physical disease and sin -- Mental illness and sin -- Demons and mental illness -- Demonic insanity -- 3. Healing and the mind -- Our Greek heritage -- The orchestra and the music -- Quietists and activists -- Part two: Science and the masks -- 4. Saints, science and psychology -- Of fear and faith -- The tower of Babel -- Measurement and Numbers -- When experiments disagree -- 5. The masks of melancholy -- The mood and the affect -- It can's all be in my head -- Camouflage symptoms -- Emotions that mask depression -- The mania of bipolar illness -- Part three: Understanding depression and suicide -- 6. Theories about depression -- Model 1: Aggression turned inward (psychoanalytical school) -- Model 2: Object loss (psychoanalytical school) -- Breaking the bonds of love -- Model 3: Loss of self-esteem (psychoanalytical school) -- Model 5-7: Sociological and Behavioral schools -- Reward and punishment! Go! and stop! -- Learned helplessness -- Model 8: Loss of meaning of existence (existential school) -- 7. Fearfully and wonderfully made -- Models 9-10: Biological schools -- The electrical impulse -- Neurotransmitters -- The brain's dispatch riders -- Genetics and depressive illness -- Ethical questions -- 8. The anatomy of suicide -- Suicide and society -- Suicide and epidemiology -- Psychology of suicide -- Suicide: fact and fable -- Part four: Coping with depression and suicide -- 9. Coping with suicide -- Assessing suicidal people -- Dealing with suicidal people -- Preventing suicide -- 10. Straightening bent minds: psychotherapies -- More about mind -- Psychotherapy -- Grief work -- Cognitive therapy -- Kant and cognitive -- Behavior therapy -- Pastoral counseling -- 11. Straightening bent minds: physical therapies -- Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) -- Lithium -- Electroconvulsive therapy (ETC) -- Combined help. John White. Includes index. Depression, Mental Religious aspects Christianity Suicide Religious aspects Christianity Suicide Religious aspects Christianity Suicide Aspect religieux Christianisme Depression, Mental Religious aspects Christianity Suicide Religious aspects Christianity Man Depression - Christian viewpoints Suicide - Christian viewpoints RC454 248.8/6 261.8/322 616.89 0851104428 9780851104423 UKM 830228 20241121100230.0 ocm16607001 eng