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Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why has the church struggled in ministering to those with mental illnesses?Each day men and women diagnosed with mental disorders are told they need to pray more and turn from their sin. Mental illness is equated with demonic possession, weak faith, and generational sin. As both a church leader and a professor of psychology and behavioral sciences, Matthew S. Stanford has seen far too many...

with clients to help them understand how mental illness affects our whole being. Figure 1.1 shows the spiritual, mental, physical, and relational facets of our being, each separate but interacting with the others. Our physical body interacts with stimuli and individuals (relationships) in the environment outside and the mind within. The mind, connected to the body through the functions of the brain and nervous system, is also in contact with our immaterial spirit. Our body senses and reacts to the
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