Failure of Evangelical Mental Health Care
Subtitle: Treatments That Harm Women, LGBT Persons and the Mentally Ill
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780786495948
Subjects: Mentally ill, religious life; Mental illness, treatment; Psychotherapy, religious aspects; Evangelicalism
Description: "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"--