LONGWOOD, FL-What the world labels "mental illness" should be more accurately called a disease of the soul, according to Wade A. Brill, Psy.D., whose groundbreaking new book, Chemically Imbalanced: The Truth About Mental Illness and How Christians Can Be Free (paperback, 978-1-60266-647-4), confronts the myth that depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders are the result of chemical imbalances or other physical causes and unmasks the true nature of these disabling conditions. The reader is not only given a biblical explanation for these disorders but is shown the scriptural path to freedom available to all who are in Christ.
"As far as I can tell, this is a new way of looking at and treating what is called mental illness," says Brill. "Readers will come to understand that what the world labels mental illness is really the outgrowth of what the Word calls strongholds. I want readers to take away a grasp of the true nature of mental illness, an understanding of the biblical steps to freedom, and a new hope that they can be free."
To create this new hope, Brill "unlearned" much of his clinical training in the medical model of mental illness and began seeing what God showed him-a blatant contradiction between those teachings and the Bible. He began looking at and treating mental illness by adopting a more scripturally based perspective on the afflictions that many Christians consider incurable. Reports the author, "I have not only seen these things work in the lives of my clients but have applied them to my own life and found freedom from deep anger and shame."
Wade A. Brill, Psy.D., is the director of Hope Center Psychological and Counseling Services. He and his wife reside in Wooster, Ohio, along with their three sons.
Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order Chemically Imbalanced through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country's leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.
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