{"product_id":"2940149330034","title":"Counseling As Healing","description":"OUTLINE OF “COUNSELING AS HEALING”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book places the therapy that is done with mental disorders in the context of medicine as a whole. It sees medicine as “healing” and healing as an expression of God’s love and through God also an expression of our love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book sees the core truth about God to be that God is love. It follows the implications of that truth for modern medicine and for the work that is done with mental disorders under the rubrics of psychotherapy or the preferred term “counseling”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author is a mental health worker licensed in the state of Maine who has been in the field since 1966 and who originally started with this work as an atheist. The author had his own mental breakdown and found faith in God’s love for him as a result. The author has worked in various settings and through many vicissitudes and shares his experience of the strength and hope for mentally ill and substance disordered persons that God’s love creates. The author gives case examples and offers information about the nature of mental disorders, what we do and don’t know, and the spirit and motivation that are necessary to do this healing work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrief explanations are given of the various psychiatric and psychological interventions used with mental disorders and how they do or do not fit into the concept of healing. The author does not offer any new therapy but rather tries to understand how Christians and indeed all helpers can work from the perspective of love as the power that brings healing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author follows this general exposition with his own personal story as an illustration of the theme of the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is an Appendix, “Images of God” which was originally prepared during the controversy over “reimagining” God with feminine imagery that occurred in the last years of the Twentieth Century. It is included here to illustrate the difficulty in conceptualizing God that should give us all humility and tolerance but also shows the richness of the thoughts that the inspired Biblical authors have had about God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author’s hope is that Twenty First Century medicine and especially the part that deals with mental disorders will find a renewal of love and concern for those we claim to be helping. The Affordable Health Act controversy in the U.S.A. is an illustration of how far astray we have gone with an overemphasis on the “bottom line” and payors rather than patients setting our agenda.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Doreau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079540162800,"sku":"2940149330034","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149330034_p0.jpg?v=1763715574","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149330034","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}