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CONTENTS
Introductions - Dr. Robert Law and Malcolm Bowden
SECTION I - FOUNDATIONS AND FUNDAMENTALS
1. The basis of the book
A unique approach to counselling
Three propositions
Self-pity and self-centredness
The uniqueness of this book
The ultimate aim
Why God formed the churches
Marshall's article
Divisions of the book
Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry and Psychology
The anti-Christian bias
2. Article - "Breakdowns are good for you"
3. A chart of "Mental illness" behaviour - and its explanation
4.Does it work?
The "God" dimension
(A) Christian cases
(B) Secular cases - Reality Therapy
....Biblical Counselling and Reality Therapy - the vital difference
....Aaron
....Ventura School for Girls
....Veteran's Psychiatric Hospital
....Western State Hospital
....A difficulty in Biblical counselling
5. Is True Biblical Counselling too "confrontational" and "judgmental"?
For Christians only!
Criticisms of Biblical Counselling by Christians
Final authority of the Bible
Secular theories
Generating unwarranted guilt in counsellees?
Mowrer's garbled theology
They are our strengths!
6. "Mental illnesses" examined
(A) Medical aspects of "mental illnesses"
(B) Schizophrenia and psychiatry - an examination.
.....The "dopamine hypothesis"
.....Is it genetically inherited?
.....The inadequacy of psychiatrists
.....The Pheonix conference
.....Harrington's controversial quotation
(C) Depression
.....Three articles -
.....Dr. Dorothy Rowe
.....Derek Draper
.....Cressida Connolly
(D) Multiple Personality Disorder
SECTION II - PRELIMINARIES TO COUNSELLING
1. Who should counsel?
.....Romans 15:14 - Can all counsel?
.....The counselling of men and women
2. Who should be counselled?
3. The 5 R's
(a) Responsibility
(b) Repentance
(c) Restitution
(d) Reconciliation
(e) Rebuilding on Christ
4. The important spiritual dimensions - Prayer, Bible reading, meditation, churchgoing
5. Motivation - mind, emotion, will, and conscience
6. Training the autonomic nervous system
7. The individual and social context of Biblical Counselling
.....Should we love ourselves first? - "Self-love" and "self-esteem"
8. The place of humour
SECTION III - THE COUNSELLING SESSION
1. The basic approach
2. Two important questions
3. Evasion of guilt
The magic wand
The rubber stamp
4. "Out of touch with reality"?
5. Questions to ask
6. Some frequent excuses
(a) "The fault of my personality"
(b) "I can't do it"
.......The £1M prize
(c) "I'm only human!"
7. Medical aspects in counselling
8. Counselling the non-Christian
The pirate ship
9. An outline of a counselling session
SECTION IV - SPECIFIC PROBLEMS
1. Schizophrenia
Hallucinations and "hearing voices"
2. Depression
Robert's depression
The rage in depression
Threats of suicide
The orthodox approach and the media
The forms of depression
The unstructured life
"Pull yourself together"
Richard Baxter's sermon
Post-traumatic stress counselling
Exercise
3. Loneliness
4. Fear, Stress and Anxiety
Overcoming panic and phobias
Pain, suffering and death
Shyness
Perfectionism
Losing face
Reaction to criticism
5. Guilt - true and false
6. Bereavement
7. Drug taking
"Twenty years of recovery"
Alcoholism
8. Problems in the workplace
9. The raising of children
(A) Discipline
(B) Love
.....Counselling the child
.....Counselling the parents
.....The "broken homes" excuse
10. Marriage
Male responsibility
Tolerance
Love
The "Conference table"
Divorce and remarriage (with flow chart for decision making)
Sexual problems
11. Homosexuality
12. Self-counselling for the reader with problems
SECTION V - Some cases for practice
Some cases for practice
1. Anne's moody husband
2. Bill has a problem with his new manager
3. Clare's friendships
4. Don's son is on drugs
5. Elsie and marriage
6. Fred's anger
7. George and Grace - (Role playing)
SECTION VI - APPENDICES
1. Freud's fraudulent cases
- and Charcot's.
2. The Final Analysis. A Freudian psychoanalyst reveals the dark secrets of his profession
3. Secular psychiatry used in counselling by some Christians
Lawrence Crabbe
Gary Collins
...- and others
4. Other Christian counselling approaches examined
(A) Deliverance from demons
(B) "Healing of the memories", "Inner healing"
.....Jung and spiritism
(C) The "four temperaments"
(D) Medical "Healings"
.....The two periods of "Signs, wonders and miracles"
5. Further questions answered
6. An examination of Biblical characters and how God dealt with them
(1) The self-pity of Job and its baneful effects.
(2) Why did Cain murder his brother Abel?
(3) The self-pity of Nebuchadnezzar.
(4) The self-pity of Jacob.
(5) The self-pity of the Scribes and Pharisees, of Ahab and Haman.
(6) The self-pity of the Elder Brother.
(7) Self-pitying Ahitophel.
(8) Self-pitying Pharaoh.
(9) The self-pitying despair of Tamar.
(10) The self-pitying cowardice of Adam and Eve.
......Their self-pitying preservation
7. The Fall
Christ's Temptations examined
8. Living the full Christian life - when miracles are rare! (With flow chart for decision making)
9. How to kill worry - with a sharp knife!
10. How the Christian should handle personal problems
11. Problems in the church.
12. The legal situation of counselling
13. The mature Christian
14. The balanced Christian
15. The Trinity, Love and Suffering
The nature of true Christian (agape) love
16. The True Biblical way to counsel an unbeliever to faith
Answers to the practice cases
Final thoughts
Bible verses for counsellors.
References
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