May we call a man “insane” just because the society in which he lives is annoyed with him? In our last article (February–March issue) we saw that a “social” definition of mental illness has its pitfalls. How may we generally describe the sick or the healthy personality? We also saw in the previous article that the mere fact certain […]

Did you ever visit a hospital for mentally ill? Your first visit to such a hospital was most likely a very unsettling experience. Possibly sleep was slow in coming lhe following night. You saw such unforgettable faces faces screwed up into the weirdest expressions, faces with silly grimaces on them, faces whose eyes had lost the […]

“Psychologism”—that is the name of an ever treacherous pitfall referred to in our previous article. When we slip into this pitfall, we lose truth in the maze of human experience. This pitfall can be avoided only by insisting upon the absolute, sovereign character of God-given truth. Only in this way can we hold before troubled […]

As we begin our adventure in that interesting land of personality health and pastoral counseling we face several possible choices as to the road along which we might proceed. We could, for example, come to grips immediately with the question, What is mental health? The relation between so-called normalcy and so-called abnormality could be our first […]