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Summary
Depression strikes millions, across all ages and demographic groups. Approximately one in eight will have a severe depressive episode at some point in their life. Women experience depression twice as often as men. And over fifty percent of people with serious depression do not get adequate help. What can be done? Psychiatrist and theologian Richard Winter explores the complex medical and psychological issues surrounding depression. He sorts through recent scientific research on its biochemical and genetic causes and examines social and cultural factors. Winter also dispels common Christian misunderstandings of depression and looks at how biblical characters experienced severe despair. Throughout he offers ways to help the suffering. Even in the shadow of the valley of death, there is hope for healing and deliverance. This book is a helpful guide for those who find themselves, their loved ones or those they counsel vulnerable to depression. Find here a framework both for understanding depression and for rediscovering hope.
Author Notes
Dr. Richard Winter is a psychotherapist, counselor and professor of practical theology at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. A native of Britain, he trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and has lived in the United States since 1992. His books include Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment and Perfecting Ourselves to Death.
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Contemporary statistics show that depression is startlingly common-the plague of modern life. It can be hard to treat, and it's painful not only to the sufferer but also to those around him or her. Winter (Perfecting Ourselves to Death), a psychiatrist and theology professor, helpfully surveys the field, explaining current understandings and research, sprinkling his exposition with illustrations drawn from his own life, both as a psychiatrist and as someone who has suffered major depression. He also draws on scripture, which can be particularly helpful to those who are religious and can find some relief and echo in the groaning and lamenting that scripture gives voice to. Theological understandings of depression are rare; most mental health practitioners will tread carefully around the subject of faith because discussing faith is usually off-limits. But for some who suffer depression, scripture's "door of hope" can be part of a comprehensive therapeutic response to the plague of inner darkness. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| Part 1 The Roots of Sorrow: Nature's Effects and Nuture's Choices |
| 1 Falling into Darkness: The Experience of Depression |
| 2 Rising into Light: Bipolar Swings, Mania and Happiness |
| 3 A Mind Diseased: Genes, Chemicals and Other Mysteries |
| 4 Some Rooted Sorrows: Childhood, Thought Patterns and Relationships |
| 5 Loss, Sorrow and Grief: Inevitable Pain in a Broken World |
| 6 Suicide: The Final Solution? |
| Part 2 Coping with the Dark and Moving Toward the Light |
| 7 Breaking Points and Suicidal Saints |
| 8 Coping with Anxiety, Worry and Fear |
| 9 Anger and the Struggle to Forgive |
| 10 The Tangled Web of Guilt and Shame |
| 11 Reducing Vulnerability and Moving Toward Healing |
| 12 Hope and Light in the Darkness |
| Appendix: Are Darker Forces at Work in Depression? On Spiritual Warfare |
| Notes |
| Name Index |
| Subject Index |
| Scripture Index |
