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Depression: A Stubborn Darkness, Edward T. Welch, M.Div., Ph.D., Punch Press, 2004
From
the Introduction:
"When you are depressed, how can you take a step, let alone a journey?
"When all vital energy is devoted to staying alive and just making it to the next hour, how can you add anything else -- like hope -- to your day?
"If you are depressed, the chapters that follow are intended to be brief and, at times, provocative. If you want to help someone who is depressed, the chapters are intended to give you direction and to be used as actual readings you can share with the depressed person. My hope is that the book will encourage partnerships between depressed people and those who love them. Suffering is not a journey we should take alone."
The book's twenty-six chapters consider the many facets of this debilitating illness: its reasons and causes, its hardships and treatments. Dr. Welch offers help and encouragement and, above all, hope -- all within the context of the sovereignty of God. There is a scriptural index in the back of the book for easy reference.
Comments:
"Help, hope, focus and vision...most of all, a renewed excitement for the wealth of wisdom in the Word of God! That's how I felt when I finished the last page of Ed Welch's book. Having wrestled through years of depression when I was first spinal-cord-injured, it was biblical insights that finally dissipated the fog of my feelings. Thank you, Ed, for providing a fine-tuned focus on the Word of God and the principles that give light to our dark path."
--Joni Eareckson Tada, Joni and Friends
"An all-too-rare combination of gospel understanding, biblical wisdom, personal empathy and long counseling experience shines through these pages. Here is a readable and reliable manual for all who personally experience the 'stubborn darkness' or who want to stand by others who do."
--Sinclair B. Ferguson, Westminster Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas
Dr. Welch is a counselor, faculty member and director of the School of Biblical Counseling at the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation and Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary.
He is the author of Addictions -- A Banquet in the Grave; Blame It on the Brain; When People Are Big and God Is Small and numerous articles.
Dr. Welch is also a noted speaker at seminars around the world. Ed and his wife, Sheri, have two daughters.
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