 | Solitude (190KB) 06/09/2006, "Jesus calls us from inner emptiness to inner solitude" [Richard Foster]. This article combines Christian and Psychological understandings to learn how we can be at peace with ourselves. | | Risk Management for Churches (156KB) 06/09/2006, God has called us to be as wise as serpents adn yet as gentle as doves. How can we apply this teaching to those who want to come to the church yet pose a danger due to their mental illness or personality? |
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|  | | Are you thirsty... | | Thirst and Hunger are common experiences if you are depressed. But Isaiah tells us it is a prerequesite for finding God. Are you thirsty...
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 | | Opinion and Hubris | | Psychiatry is not an exact science, yet I give a lot of opinions in my work. How is this possible? How can I keep it real!
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 | | Who are your heroes? | | Are you waiting up for a hero in the field of Christian Mental Health? Or are there already hundreds who just need to be found?
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 | | Overlearning Conquerors | | Will you settle for survival - being aware of the truth but never living in its power - or will you become more than a conqueror by something called overlearning
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 | | Survey Monkey | | The Catholic Church are conducting two surveys on what it means to be an active Christian in Healthcare. Take part and get your Chief Executive to do the same.
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 | | Inspiring faith | | Lucinda Van Der Hart writes about Maggie Ellis and her decision to become a psychosexual therapist to help victims of rape in the south of England.
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 | | ASBO Jesus | | The real Jesus can cause offense to those living in his neighbourhood
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 | | Famous and Flat | | Why do so many celebrities seem to struggle with their mental health? Three reasons - some are their fault, others ours...
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 | | Resources and Relationships | | Our resources are in our relationships. It's not what you know but who you know. This may sound unfair but it is the way the world works
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 | | What are you building? | | Am I involved in maintenance or transformation? Do I have the faith that God can do something amazing? He is still in the business of shaking things up.
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 | | The Drug Addicts Psalm | | Jackie Pullinger in the Walled City describes what it is like to be a drug addict - and that God understands
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 | | Freud and Pharmacology | | I'm in Vienna this week - and it got me thinking about how different world views compete for the claim to best understand human distress
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 | | The Rhetoric of Elihu | | Elihu is the bridge that enables Job to listen to God when his 'comforters' had previously wound him up. He demonstrates key skills in cognitive therapy to navigate the so-called hot-cross bun.
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 | | Life Events and Difficulties | | Marriage - a potential source of stress, or a great blessing? Why I don't believe in the usual explanations for why some people get stressed and others don't
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 | | Sensitivity and Sensuality | | Sensitivity is the abililty to take a correct and balanced view on life: something that cannot be done in the grips of an eating disorder
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 | | Fasting and Eating Disorders | | Christians are encouraged to fast; but how does this relate to someone with a current or past eating disorder? Is food the only way to fast?
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 | | Scared of God... | | When we are depressed, it can feel like God is a million miles away and wants to have nothing to do with us: I mean who would... The reality could not be further from the truth
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 | | Albert Ellis dies | | A giant of REBT and CBT dies, but was his legacy all it might have been? Is it possible that we can learn great truths, yet fall so far short of Truth?
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 | | My brothers keeper... | | I am my brothers keeper and responsible for those around me. This is vital if we are to reach those who struggle. We have been transformed so that we might transform others
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 | | A bias for the poor? | | I work with many poor people. Thank heavens the NHS funds this. But surely the church should be leading the way? Is there a bias in the gospel for the poor, or just the trapped?
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 | | Affinity or Community | | If I just like people who are like me, this may be fun - but it is merely Affinity and not the Community that Jesus called us to and died for
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 | | Psychologies | | Psychology is a science as much as anything else, but just because something is measurable, even common, doesn't mean it is right. The new Psychologies glossy mag is critiqued
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 | | The original health service | | A Deaconess used to be a Parish Nurse, but now thte NHS does all that - or does it. This article examines how we can start a return to holistic healthcare.
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 | | Broken Hearts | | Jesus did not come to criticise those with broken hearts - for he does not despise this state. But He did come to bind them up and heal them.
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 | | Links and Search Engines | | Help us with our rankings in Google and other search engines by linking to us. People can then easily find us when they search for Mind and Soul.
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 | | How much Patience? | | How long should you work with someone before 'giving up'. Is everyone worth the effort? How do you decide where to prioritise your time?
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 | | The person behind the problem | | Why do models of health and illness fail to satisfy? Where have all the passionate people gone - lost behind models? What is the best model and how does it relate to these others?
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 | | Creative Futures | | By default we will tend to REPEAT our pasts. How can we learn to listen to our pasts so that we can CREATE new futures?
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 | | Seeds of Hope | | There's always hope no matter what it seems like - but it's vital to introduce it in a way people can accept rather than laugh blackly at
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 | | Between Vines | | Should we run away from situations or stay? And if we do run, what's it like before we land somewhere else?
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 | | Inside-out Spirituality | | There are two ways of looking at our faith and what other people can see. I have been supervising a research project...
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 | | Limits of competence | | How do I know when I can't help people or when they are too 'well' to see a psychiatrist [but think they need to!]
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 | | Tell or not tell | | Should we ask people to tell us ALL the details, even in something as horrific as abuse?
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 | | Rat Race | | Your in a rat race - or is there another way to define yourself?
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 | | My fellow lepers | | As a psychiatrist, it can be tempting to take a paternalistic attitude, but it won't get you very far. Nor will you learn very much
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 | | Recognising a problem | | The former archbishop of york moves onto intresting ground at the Royal College of Psychiatrists conference.
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 | | Beattitudes for today | | Jesus isn't making crazy promises for the poor of the world, he is asking for faith even though they are poor and to persevere none the less
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 | | Images in the mind | | Some Christians believe that they should NEVEr have a bad thought or image, but this only makes things worse
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 | | TA, Pa | | Transactional Analysis can help us understand why we mis-represent God
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 | | How not to do it | | This technique really annoyed me! this is probably the worst thing you could say to someone who is depressed. It cuts to the bone but doesn't heal
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 | | Loneliness at Christmas | | Christmas can be a very difficult time for people with mental illness - everyone else seems to be with someone or at a party
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 | | Introducing spirituality | | When I meet a new client for the first time, I try to talk to them about Jesus - but how do you start the coversation?
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 | | Two-stage Renewal | | All over the world there are Christians trying to renew their minds by reading scripture, praying for the spirit, worshipping and trying to be better people - but it's not working!
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 | | First do no harm | | If something si powerful enough to do good, it is powerful enough to do harm. This week I started a new job
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 | | Zero-gravity thinking | | How can we break free of patterns laid down by those who came before us, especially whne those do not work or even cause harm?
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 | | Heaviness | | Sometimes I feel heavy - not depressed as such, just heavy and weary. It can also be accompanied by lots of rumination and anxious thoughts about this and that and everything.
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| | The Sword of the Lord | | Am I ready for this to be evidenced in my life? Or will my own failings and falleness obscure that withc should be giving glory to God?
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 | | Lossless Compression | | I'm reading some M Scott Peck at the moment: The Road Less Travelled. I was also teaching about depression yesterday at the University of Leeds and so had to exlain the concept of loss.
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