John Weaver

The Failure of Evangelical Mental Health Care

Treatments That Harm Women, LGBT Persons and the Mentally Ill

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In the evangelical community, a variety of alternative mental health treatments--deliverance/exorcism, biblical counseling, reparative therapy and many others--have been proposed for the treatment of mentally ill, female and LGBT evangelicals. This book traces the history of these methods, focusing on the major proponents of each therapeutic system while also examining mainstream evangelical psychology"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780786495948
• ISBN-10: 0786495944
• Artikelnr.: 40872684

Autorenporträt

John Weaver is an instructor at SUNY Broome. He lives in Amsterdam, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1.
Deliverance Movement: History and Foundational Assumptions 2.
The Complementary Mental Health Care of Charismatics: From the Sandfords to Sozo 3.
Mission Without Mercy: Mercy Ministries and Deliverance 4.
Jay Adams: The Beginnings of Evangelical Anti-Psychiatry and the Demonization of the Mentally Ill 5.
Biblical Counseling: The Second and Third Generations 127 6.
Patriarchal Counseling 7.
Evangelicals and Ex-gays: The Failure of Praying the Gay Away 8.
Integrationism and the Popularizers Conclusion: Evangelicals and Mental Illness Appendix A: A Christological Vision of a Mad Christ: Mental Illness and Jesus Appendix B: Mercy Ministries' View of the Body List of Acronyms Glossary Chapter Notes Works Cited Index