Author : Dale Cockrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 1997-07-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521568289
A study of blackface minstrels in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Author : Danica Ked
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1504321472
This is a unique story of a Christian woman involved within the dreamworld for 22years. She learns that she had been involved with the devil without her knowledge; entering into the spirit world. The devil decides to attacks her mentally and a spiritual battle erupts.
Author : Simone Yemm
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781646635344
Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder is a window into the depths of dysfunction as experienced through bulimia, binge-eating disorder, self-harm, and suicidality. Carrying messages of self-loathing and inadequacy from her childhood, Simone explores key relationships and how they shape her-for better and for worse-over the decades. Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels offers vulnerable insight into an oft-hidden world. It doesn't pretend to answer all the questions or solve all the problems but instead attempts to elicit an understanding of behaviors many people might find inexplicable. Simone's journey into the world of psychological recovery is raw and personal, as full of relapse and regret as it is hope for the future. Her road to recovery is not a destination; it comprises learning a new way of being. She leaves the reader with a vision of freedom from disordered eating-as she imagines it to be.
Author : A. Poskitt
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2018-06-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781976018442
A book of supreme importance to any sufferer of mental illness: Can mental illness have a spiritual cause? Do spirits have the power to control our moods and thinking?Having experienced a terrifying bout of depressive psychosis in his teens after a 'bad trip' on LSD, the author sets out a compelling case that his mental illness derived from the demonic realm.What you ought to know about mental illness: The author eloquently describes the abstract weirdness of his psychosis; its sudden onset and the temptation to suicide as well as the miraculous release from its horror prompted by a chance meeting in a local bar.Freed from the crushing agony of depression from what he believes was divine intervention, Mr Poskitt describes what it feels like to lose one's mind - and the joy of regaining it - providing evidence for a demonic cause as well as a spiritual cure for mental illness. This book is written for those of you who are open to the very real possibility that some types of mental illness are more than conditions with purely biological causes and that there exists a fine line between the psychiatric and the paranormal. Mental illness sufferers can receive this priceless gift but few discover it: Funny, frightening, challenging, hopeful and unapologetically un-PC; if you or a loved one is enduring the misery of mental illness it's time you understood your plight is not unique and that a door can be shut permanently on 'insanity' without the long-term use of drugs and medications. Get the power to tackle your mental illness one page at a time:Based on his own experience the author provides a self-help list of life enhancing choices you can make to restore mental health and happiness.
Author : Patrick Cockburn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439154716
Narrated by both Henry Cockburn and his father Patrick, this is the extraordinary story of the eight years since Henry's descent into schizophrenia- years he has spent almost entirely in hospitals- and his family's struggle to help him recover.
Author : Siam Bhayro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004338543
In many near eastern traditions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, demons have appeared as a cause of illness from ancient times until at least the early modern period. This volume explores the relationship between demons, illness and treatment comparatively. Its twenty chapters range from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to early modern Europe, and include studies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They discuss the relationship between ‘demonic’ illnesses and wider ideas about illness, medicine, magic, and the supernatural. A further theme of the volume is the value of treating a wide variety of periods and places, using a comparative approach, and this is highlighted particularly in the volume’s Introduction and Afterword. The chapters originated in an international conference held in 2013. "Ultimately, Demons and Illness admirably performs the important task of reminding modern scholars of premodern health of the integral role played by these complex and shifting entities in the lives of people across the globe and through the centuries." -Rachel Podd, Fordham University, in: Social History of Medicine 32.3 (2019) "Given the sheer breadth of its scope, the volume is, of course, illustrative rather than comprehensive in its coverage, yet there is a definite coherence to its content, aided by the introduction and afterword which bookend the work and help begin to draw out the threads of commonality and difference. As such it constitutes a significant and welcome resource for comparative explorations of historical-cultural links between demons, illness, medicine, and magic, while offering a clear invitation to future work." -Matthew A. Collins, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)
Author : Phillip Spencer Morris
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2008-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606477323
Are you suffering with emotional or psychological problems? Some are suffering with an identity crisis of enormous stature. Who am I? Why do I do the things I do? Why can't I remember my childhood? Where are these horrific nightmares and flashbacks coming from? When one suffers traumatic events, they may "check out" and develop another personality. You do not have to live this way. This Book Will Help You To: . Recognize the source of flashbacks and nightmares. . Understand how it is impossible for a born again Christian to be "possessed". . Discern how a spirit becomes the "strongman" in a person's life. . Recognize why one displays characteristics of two different people. . Explain what can happen when a demon invades and influences a person's mind. . Reveal the spiritual nature of MPD and how to address it spiritually. . Read others' experiences of deliverance and restoration. Phillip came to Houston in 1979 to attend Gulf Coast Bible College, graduated from Christian College of America with a degree in Psychology/Counseling, and a Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling from Houston Graduate School of Theology. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Theology from Christian Bible College and Seminary. In 1982 God thrust Phillip into the deliverance ministry and called him to "establish the church" by "setting the captives free." Phillip founded Restoration House Church in 1992. His previous books include "Spiritual Connections to Personality Disorders," "Body Piercing," and "Walking Out Your Deliverance." Dr. Morris travels to teach and minister spiritual warfare and deliverance locally and internationally. You may contact him at Restoration House Church, 1609 Jones Road, Highlands, TX 77562, or www.restorationhousechurch.com. Phillip S. Morris is married, has four children and thirteen grandchildren. Phillip served two tours in Vietnam before accepting Jesus in 1976.
Author : Andrew Solomon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145161103X
The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, and available therapies. This book examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations, around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. He takes readers on a journey into the most pervasive of family secrets and contributes to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition.
Author : Alissa Hall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0615162037
After 13 years of anorexia and bulimia, I healed myself through meditation and prayer, and tried to forget my disorder. But when others asked for my help so they too could recover, my compassion and sympathy overruled that decision. "Exposing the Demon" uncovers the internal source of an eating disorder by examining it in a metaphysical light, and instructs the reader to use her emotions, imagination and spirit to regain her health... not for a while, but for good.
Author : Christopher C. H. Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0429750943
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God.
