TIL 259: The Problem With The Mental Illness Narrative
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
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🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Featuring: - The shifting definition of mental disorder in the DSM - How should we think about mental diseases and disorders? - The lack of a definition in mental disease - The evolution of mental disorders Notes: JBC Volume 15:1 PDF - Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (FREE from 5/17-5/23) https://www.ccef.org/shop/product/jbc-volume-15-1-pdf/ Mental Health Month Podcast Series: The Bible of Psychiatry - https://biblicalcounseling.com/the-bible-of-psychiatry Biological Psychiatry - https://biblicalcounseling.com/biological-psychiatry Send your Truth in Love Questions to info@biblicalcounseling.com
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| 0:00.0 | The Problem with the Mental Illness narrative on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:17.6 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:23.0 | Today on the podcast, once again, for the month of May, I have with me, Dr. Sam Stevens, |
| 0:28.7 | who is Director of Training Center Certification here at ACBC. |
| 0:32.7 | And Sam, this is an interest, an area of interest for both you and I to study in the world of secular psychology and to try and understand some of the vain philosophies that have been impacting the church, both from a modern perspective and also a historical perspective. |
| 0:50.7 | And it's interesting to me, we move in this month of May, mental health awareness |
| 0:55.6 | month. And our last two weeks, we've been discussing ideas and topics within this realm. |
| 1:01.1 | And this week, we turn our attention specifically to the definition of mental illness. This |
| 1:06.6 | term is used quite frequently when talking about diagnoses from the DSM and also the term |
| 1:14.3 | mental disorder. And I really want us this week to sort of hone in on those terms and how |
| 1:21.0 | misconstrued those terms are, what misconceptions we have, especially among the common culture. |
| 1:30.1 | And so I want to see what we can do to just expose what reality is relative to the definition. |
| 1:36.4 | And so here's where we're going to start today, okay? |
| 1:38.5 | What I want to do is I'm just going to read the definition from the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. |
| 1:45.9 | This is what we've been talking about, the Bible of psychiatry. I'm going to read to you the |
| 1:50.9 | definition. Now, it's interesting. The definition of mental disorder, which is what's |
| 1:55.2 | categorized throughout the whole of this book, it uses the term mental disorder and not mental |
| 2:00.5 | illness. The writers of the DSM |
| 2:03.1 | recognize that there is not enough evidence to use the term illness even in its own |
| 2:09.6 | description. So it uses the term mental disorder. And the reason is because we're in an era of |
| 2:15.9 | what's called descriptive psychiatry. We're in an era of what's called descriptive psychiatry. We're in an era of |
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