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- catalog abstract "For nearly four decades social critics such as Philip Rieff and Christopher Lasch have bemoaned the "triumph of the therapeutic" in our "culture of narcissism." But whatever their level of uneasiness about the psychologizing of reality, most Christians have made some degree of peace with the reigning power of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic outlooks. Seth Farber is not one of those Christians. In his estimation psychotherapy has become "a replacement for involvement in the spiritual life of the church," with pastors and other Christian leaders too quickly deferring to psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Unholy Madness is prompted by Farber's passionate insistence that Christianity and psychiatry are nothing less than competing faiths. Farber's radical argument cuts to the root of the mental health system and challenges the church to consider how much it may have constricted its own vision and neglected its unique responsibilities in its accomodation to that system. Taking on giants from Augustine to Freud, wide-ranging and never boring, Unholy Madness is not likely to persuade all its readers. But none will be able to see these issues in the same way again. -- Publisher.".
- catalog contributor b11840188.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "For nearly four decades social critics such as Philip Rieff and Christopher Lasch have bemoaned the "triumph of the therapeutic" in our "culture of narcissism." But whatever their level of uneasiness about the psychologizing of reality, most Christians have made some degree of peace with the reigning power of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic outlooks. Seth Farber is not one of those Christians. In his estimation psychotherapy has become "a replacement for involvement in the spiritual life of the church," with pastors and other Christian leaders too quickly deferring to psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Unholy Madness is prompted by Farber's passionate insistence that Christianity and psychiatry are nothing less than competing faiths. Farber's radical argument cuts to the root of the mental health system and challenges the church to consider how much it may have constricted its own vision and neglected its unique responsibilities in its accomodation to that system. Taking on giants from Augustine to Freud, wide-ranging and never boring, Unholy Madness is not likely to persuade all its readers. But none will be able to see these issues in the same way again. -- Publisher.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-156) and indexes.".
- catalog description "The religion of psychiatry -- Psychiatry's invasion of family & community life -- The Christian revolution & its legacy -- The challenge to the church: Overcoming Constantinianism -- The Western shame-and-guilt culture & the myth of mental illness -- The church as counterculture -- The mental patient as exile & as Christian initiate -- The restoration of the authority of the church.".
- catalog extent "162 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0830819398 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press,".
- catalog subject "261.5/15 21".
- catalog subject "BT732.4 .F37 1999".
- catalog subject "Christianity Psychology.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry and religion.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The religion of psychiatry -- Psychiatry's invasion of family & community life -- The Christian revolution & its legacy -- The challenge to the church: Overcoming Constantinianism -- The Western shame-and-guilt culture & the myth of mental illness -- The church as counterculture -- The mental patient as exile & as Christian initiate -- The restoration of the authority of the church.".
- catalog title "Unholy madness : the church's surrender to psychiatry / Seth Farber.".
- catalog type "text".