Title: Gods and diseases : making sense of our physical and mental wellbeing /
Authors: Tacey, David J. 1953-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Christianity; Mental Disorders; Religion and Psychology; Mental health Religious aspects Christianity; Healing Religious aspects Christianity; Spiritual healing; Psychology, Religious; Diseases Religious aspects
Abstract: Today's society faces many problems that cannot be solved by the application of reason, logic or medicine. Some of these include alcoholism, suicide, drug addiction and child abuse to name but a few. Many mental health problems are on the increase, such as depression, phobias, and anxiety, with no obvious solution in sight. In God and Diseases, David Tracey argues that the answers lie in leaving behind the confines of conventional medicine. Instead we should turn towards spirituality and to what he calls 'meaning-making', to make sense of our physical and mental wellbeing and explore how the numinous may help us to heal. (back cover).
Contents: Return of the gods -- Gods and diseases -- Suffering of spiritual rebirth -- Midlife crisis as spiritual interruption -- Cancer phobia as a doorway to soul -- Sexuality and the sacred -- Incest, child abuse and alcoholism -- Depression, self-harm and suicide -- Storm gods and the German psychosis -- Spirituality, medicine, health -- Numinous as a source of healing.