New Resource for Integrated Christian Psychiatry

At my practice, we strive to put God’s glorification as the goal and necessary end of all our work. Speaking generally the medical model seeks to move patients from isolation of a problem through accurate diagnosis and treatment to resolution. This is a good gift and has served us well since the time of Hippocrates. Yet, as Christians, we are not promised an easy or pain-free life. We recognize that some of the greatest good God gives us comes through the painful path of affliction:

"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines." - Samuel Rutherford.

“I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.” - Charles Spurgeon

“Christianity is not the removal of suffering, but the addition of grace to endure suffering triumphantly.” -Thomas Watson

“I have reason to praise [God] for my trials, for most probably, I should have been ruined without them.” - John Newton

How, then, do we reconcile these two realities? God’s goodness in the means of healing and his sovereign hand of blessing in suffering? Even more, how do we think of mental health trials as a distinct type of suffering and the often controversial methods used to treat it?

These are the topics I explore in The Mind for His Glory: A Philosophy of Applied Christian Psychiatry. It is my hope that this book becomes one resource among many for the faithful stewardship of mental health resources. All proceeds from the purchase of this book go to support the Faith and Medicine Foundation.