Misrepresentations of biological psychiatry on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love,

a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

And Sam, here we are once again, our director of Training Center Certification,

Professor of Biblical Counseling at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

And we're glad that you've joined us again this week. We are continuing a conversation that

we had to rudely interrupt, I suppose, because of time and so much that we need to say about this.

So we'll call this a part two. And we were looking last time at a Harvard review of psychiatry

article that came out in 2020 discussing the issues of misrepresentations

of biological psychiatry, particularly in mass media, and they do a really good job, I think,

of helping us to see some of the problems that have been revealed about scientific, quote-unquote,

scientific research relative to psychiatric illnesses or mental disorders,

mental health issues. It reminds you that May is mental health month, which is why we

sort of intentionally focus in this direction. And I do hope that you're not put off by

this being a little bit more academic. It certainly is, but I see it is important translated down to

the church that this becomes a blockade from so many pastors wanting to engage in biblical counseling.

They sort of lead this category that there are these, you know, science has this curb on biological

psychiatry. We don't want to pit ourselves against science as people of faith have done in the

past. And so it sort of keeps them from exploring the beauty of the sufficiency of Scripture to

deal with the problems that we struggle with in life. It diminishes our Christian worldview. It diminishes

the idea that Christ is supreme and holds all things in his hand,

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