Finding Jesus in the Storm - John Swinton

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Introduction: Life in All Its Fullness

       Thick Descriptions

       “Mental Illness” as a Journey

       About the Book and Its Language

       The Practice of Description

       The Problem of Thin Descriptions

       Stigma as Thin Description

       Making Up Thin People: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

       Biology and the Thinning of Mental Health Challenges

       The Thinning of Spirituality

       Chapter 2: Resurrecting Phenomenology

       The Death of Phenomenology

       Developing a Phenomenological Attitude

       Four Horizons: Creating a Thick Conversation around Severe Mental Health Challenges

       PART II: REDESCRIBING DIAGNOSIS

       Chapter 3: Taking Our Meds Faithfully

       Diagnosis, Alienation, and Resignation

       A Bipolar Story

       PART III: REDESCRIBING DEPRESSION

       Chapter 4: Lament and Joy

       Depression

       Thickening Our Understanding of Depression

       Thinking about Joy

       Depression as Antifeeling

       Chapter 5: Finding God in the Darkness

       Orientation

       Disorientation

       Reorientation

       Finding God in God’s Absence

       PART IV: HEARING VOICES

       Chapter 6: Understanding Psychosis

       The Problem with Schizophrenia

       Understanding Psychosis

       Nuancing Our Understanding

       Chapter 7: Hearing Voices

       Hearing Voices

       When God Talks Back

       Hearing Voices across Cultures

       What Makes the Difference?

       A Pathogenic Culture

       Chapter 8: A Strange Kind of Loneliness

       Are Voices Inevitably Bad? A Strange Kind of Silence

       Theological Implications

       A Theology of Naming

       PART V: REDESCRIBING BIPOLAR DISORDER

       Chapter 9: Bipolar Faith

       The Biology of Spirituality

       The Problem with Neurological Explanations: Moving beyond Neuromania

       Chapter 10: Bipolar Disorder and the Nature of Suffering

       Catherine’s Story

       Epistemic Innocence: Medicating a Prophet

       Rethinking Recovery: Creating a Context for Epistemic Justice

       Repercussions: The Shadow Side of Spiritual Elation

       Two

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