Counseling for the Soul in Distress: What Every Religious Counselor Should Know about Emotional and Mental Illness Book

	Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction: Conflicts and Concerns of Religion and Psychiatry	1
	A Look Backward	2
	Common Roles	5
	Historical Changes	7
	What Psychiatry Can Do	8
Ch. 2	Parents, Society, and Heredity	13
	The Freudian Revolution: The Shift to Parental Responsibility	14
	Effect on Child Rearing	14
	The Shift to Social Causes	15
	Reactions to Social Changes	16
	Research on Heredity of Mental Illness	18
	Conclusion	22
Ch. 3	Biochemistry, Mental Illness, and Medication	23
	What Is a Disease?	24
	The Use of Medication in Psychiatry	27
	Selecting the Proper Medication	28
Ch. 4	Mood Disorders: Depression and Manic States	31
	Prevalence of Depression	32
	The Nature of Depression	33
	What Causes Depression?	35
	Environmentally Induced Depression: Phil	36
	A Biologically Induced Depression: Bob	38
	Medical Treatment	41
	Antidepressant Medications	42
	Using Antidepressants in Other Psychiatric Conditions	46
	A Look Backward	48
	Beyond Medication	49
	How Can the Clergy Help?	49
Ch. 5	Schizophrenic Disorders	53
	What Is Schizophrenia?	54
	A Brief History	56
	What Causes Schizophrenia?	57
	Antipsychotic Drugs (Neuroleptics)	58
	The Role of the Clergy	65
Ch. 6	Other Psychotic Disorders	67
	Delusional Disorder	67
	Schizophreniform Disorder	68
	Schizoaffective Disorder	68
	Brief Psychotic Disorder	69
	Shared Psychotic Disorder	69
	Psychotic Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition	69
	Treatment of the Psychoses	70
	The Role of the Clergy	70
Ch. 7	The Neuroses	71
	Anxiety Disorders	71
	Somatoform Disorders	83
	Dissociative Disorders	87
	What Can the Clergy Do About Anxiety Disorders?	90
Ch. 8	Alcoholism and Drug Abuse	93
	What Is Alcoholism?	94
	Why Do People Drink Alcohol?	95
	Drinking Patterns	96
	How Many People Drink Alcohol?	97
	Types of Alcoholism	97
	Drug Abuse	100
	Treatment of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse	104
	The Important Role of Alcoholics Anonymous	105
	Substance Abuse and the Clergy	107
Ch. 9	Organic Mental Disorders	109
	Overview of Organic Mental Disorders	110
	What Causes Organic Mental Disorders?	112
	Diagnosing Organic Brain Disease	114
	Organic Disease Masquerading As Emotional Illness	117
	What Can the Clergy Do?	118
Ch. 10	Personality Disorders	123
	How Does the Personality Develop?	125
	Classification of Personality Disorders	127
	Understanding Personality Types	130
	Personality Types and the Clergy	137
Ch. 11	The Psychological Effects of Loss	141
	Losses Large and Small	141
	Defending Against Loss	143
	Recognizing Stages of Grief in the Family	148
	Dealing with Loss	156
	Loss and the Clergy	158
Ch. 12	Sexual Problems in Our Culture	161
	Recent Changes	163
	The Sexual Disorders	164
	The Paraphilias	166
	Sexual Dysfunctions	172
	Treatment	175
	Other Sexual Topics	177
	What Can the Clergy Do?	180
Ch. 13	Eating Disorders	183
	Early Feeding	183
	An Overview of Eating Disorders	184
	Anorexia Nervosa	187
	Bulimia	191
	Binge-Eating Disorder	193
	Obesity	193
	Further Research Directions	197
	What the Clergy Can Do	197
Ch. 14	Understanding Stress	199
	Stress: Yesterday and Today	201
	Human Development and Stress	203
	Stresses of Childhood	203
	Adult Stresses	205
	Stress on the Job	207
	Identity Problems	208
	The Stress of Loss	211
	Marital Stress	212
	Coping with Stress	217
	Exploring Needs	218
Ch. 15	Pastoral Ethics: A Psychiatrist's View	223
	Confidentiality	224
	Transference and Countertransference Problems	227
	Countertransference	230
	Commitment	231
	Summary	236
Ch. 16	Psychotherapists: Who, What, Why, and When to Refer	237
	The Psychiatrist's Education	238
	Basic Assumptions in Psychiatry	239
	Types of Psychotherapy	245
	Recent Developments	249
	The Competent Psychotherapist	251
	Choosing a Psychotherapist	251
Ch. 17	Conclusion	257
	Bibliography	263
	Index	267