Hell and Madness, Grace and Sanity: The True Biblical Basis for Mental Health - Softcover

Pauline Holmes

9780963454041: Hell and Madness, Grace and Sanity: The True Biblical Basis for Mental Health

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963454048 ISBN 13: 9780963454041

Publisher: Ransom Press, 1992

Explains why the gospel is essential to mental health. Draws from many sources including the work of Freud, Jung, cognitive psychology, astrology, and psychotic phenomena to make the case that humans have inborn knowledge that their imperfection, or sin, separates them from God eternally, destining them for "outer darkness," i.e., the price for sin is death. This knowledge produces that guilt that underlies psychopathology, cured only by internalization of total forgiveness found only in the God of the Bible, who literally paid the penalty for human sin by proxy with the sacrificed Christ. Contains a revised DSM looking at the various mental disorders as manifestations of the same basic conflict.

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About the Author:

Pauline Holmes is a British-born licensed psychologist in private practice in California. She discovered through her own experience with clients that humans have an innate sense of deserving eternal punishment that cannot be connected to human abuse. This led her to see that mental health can only be attained when humans internalize the fact that they are freed from the subconsciously-anticipated punishment. The only source for this freeing knowledge is the Bible. She has broadcast a radio program on KCBC AM 770 for the past 11 years dealing with this subject and founded a not-for-profit organization called Grace and Sanity Ministries with her husband, Walter.

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