Truth In Love · TIL 257: The Bible of Psychiatry
Dale Johnson: This week I am joined by Dr. Sam Stephens. He is our Director of Training Center Certification. We are now in the month of May, which is known around the world as Mental Health Month or Mental Health Awareness Month. This month, we want to give special interest to talking about the issues of mental health.
There’s so much information for us to talk about here. One of my visions with ACBC is that we reclaim the problems that people face from a biblical perspective. Over the next several podcasts throughout the month of May, we will talk about mental health and biblical counseling. I want us to bring clarity—if we can—on the importance of the secular worldview and how secular psychology categorizes human problems. Then we’ll examine how we would think through this in a thoroughly biblical way.
The title of today’s podcast is The Bible of Psychiatry. That phrase is used, even in the secular field, to refer to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). I think it’s important that we begin there too. Many people view the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
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