Dale Johnson: May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we are dedicating our Truth and Love podcast to talking about issues that are very prevalent in our culture. In fact during this time of pandemic the terminology of mental health is actually increasing.
One of the signs we’ve seen that mental health issues are increasing is the 34.1 percent increase in anti-anxiety prescriptions between March and April. We want to talk about a historical narrative for us to understand how we got to where we are today with this terminology of biological psychiatry, which dominates the mental health scene right now.
There is a story. There is a way in which we arrived at a place just like this. In fact, Dr. David Powlison in the Journal of Biblical Counseling in 1999—21 years ago—wrote an article called Biological Psychiatry. The interesting thing is that the narrative has only grown. Dr. Powlison was correct. What we see even further down the road, now 21 years later, is biological psychiatry has increased in its influence and its narrative. It’s important for us to consider why and how this happened.
This week on the podcast I have with me again Dr. Sam
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