Schizophrenic Unicorn Part 2 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 to the problems that people face.

This week, just like last week, I have with me, Dr. Daniel Berger II.

He's a lead pastor at Faith Fellowship Church in Clarence, New York.

He's the founder and director of Alethea International Ministries,

and he serves as the Director of Faith Biblical Counseling Center.

He's the author of 14 books on various topics, including biblical counseling and the history and philosophy behind the current

mental health construct. That's actually what we're continuing. A discussion about today is one of

his books called Schizophrenic Unicorn. I would encourage you to go seek out that book. If you have not listened to

last week's podcast, I want to encourage you to start there. And then join us as we talk this

week and continue this discussion. Daniel, as I mentioned, we finished discussing last week

this issue of schizophrenia as either a biological disease or a construct, you were diving into

describing this distinction, that it is, in fact, consider historically what science has discovered

up to this point. It is a construct in how we approach this idea. I want you to give a brief

sort of description of what you mean by construct, and then I want us to

continue talking about this particular issue of schizophrenia further.

Yeah, the secular world does not believe in a biblical concept of dual nature. And so the idea

of bio-reductionism or physicalism, naturalism, material, you know, whatever word we want to

choose requires them to explain

everything within a medically sounding or pseudoscientific framework. And why I'm saying

pseudoscientific is because we as Christians embrace science. But if it's an inorganic reality,

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