Troubled Minds Mental Illness and the Church's Mission

Name: Troubled Minds Mental Illness and the Church's Mission
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ISBN: 9780830843046

ISBN-10: 0830843043

ISBN-13: 9780830843046

Edition: 2013

Authors: Amy Simpson, Marshall Shelley

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Mental illness is the sort of thing we dont like to talk about. It doesnt reduce nicely to simple solutions and happy outcomes. So instead, too often we reduce people who are mentally ill to caricatures and ghosts, and simply pretend they dont exist. They do exist, howeverstatistics suggest that one in four people suffer from some kind of mental illness. And then theres their friends and family members, who bear their own scars and anxious thoughts, and who see no safe place to talk about the impact of mental illness on their lives and their loved ones. Many of these people are sitting in churches week after week, suffering in stigmatized silence. InTroubled MindsAmy Simpson, whose…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 4/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Family Story



Mental Illness Is Mainstream



Suffering People



Coping



Church Life



Ministry Life



Persistent Stigma



What Churches Can Do



What God Does


Notes


Resources for Ministry to People Affected by Mental Illness


About the Author