* This product is available for purchase worldwide.

"By means of personal story, theological reflection and practical suggestions for caregivers, Greene-McCreight takes readers into her mind as she plunges from frantic ecstasy ... to profound despair. ... With firm but never facile faith, she offers hope to Christians with mental illness and understanding to those who live and work with them."
-Publishers Weekly

Darkness Is My Only Companion takes a compassionate look at mental illness, offering theological understanding and personal insights from the author's personal experiences. It provides poignant glimpses into the mind of a mentally ill person and practical advice for friends, family, and clergy.

Where is God in the suffering of a mentally ill person? What happens to the soul when the mind is ill? How are Christians to respond in the face of mental illness? In Darkness Is My Only Companion, Kathryn Greene-McCreight confronts these difficult questions raised by her own mental illness--bi-polar disorder.

With brutal honesty, she tackles often avoided topics such as suicide, mental hospitals, and shock therapy. Greene-McCreight offers the reader everything from poignant and raw glimpses into the mind of a mentally ill person to practical and forthright advice for their friends, family, and clergy. Her voice is a comfort to those who suffer from mental illness and an invaluable resource for those who love and support them.

Kathryn Greene-McCreight (Ph.D., Yale University) is an advising pastor in the seminarian intern program at Yale Divinity School and assistant rector at St. John's Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut. Her previous books include Ad Litteram: How Augustine, Calvin, and Barth Read the Plain Sense of Genesis 1-3 and Feminist Reconstructions of Christian Doctrine.

http://www.christianbook.com/darkness-companion-christian-response-mental-illness/kathryn-greene-mccreight/9781441201119/pd/6402EB

http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product_review

__USERID__

http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/ask_and_answer

• Christian Living >> Spirituality >> Overcoming Spiritual Challenges >> Pain & Suffering
• Christian Living >> Spirituality >> Personal Testimonies
• Download >> Christian Living >> Spirituality
• Download >> Missions Evangelism & Apologetics
• Download >> eBooks >> Christian Living >> Spirituality
• Download >> eBooks >> Missions Evangelism & Apologetics >> Challenging Topics
• eBooks >> Christian Living >> Spirituality >> Overcoming Spiritual Challenges
• eBooks >> Christian Living >> Spirituality >> Personal Testimonies
• eBooks >> Missions Evangelism & Apologetics >> Challenging Topics >> Medical Ethics
• Start A New Christianbook.com Search

I'm the author/artist and I want to review Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness - eBook.