Talk:Nouthetic Counseling

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I attempted to add notability information to the article. Can anyone tell me if it is sufficient to allow this article to remain? Humble Learner 12:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Humble Learner

Sorry it has taken so long for someone to answer your question. You've done a great job. I've made a few changes, I hope you approve. Please drop me a note at my user page if or when you get back to Wiki. I'd love it if we could expand this page. Important topic, let's help people have access to it. :) Alastair Haines 17:43, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

re: Nouthetic counselors who don't believe in mental illness. CCEF's Ed Welch has written a great book on the topic titled "Blame It On the Brain?". He wrote it to help counselors help counselees discern whether problems are mostly medical/biochemical, sinful/mental/emotional/behavioural, or a combination of both. A bottom line is that Psychiatrists work to deal with both medical and sinful issues, even if they don't recognize the sin. I've heard from somebody who practices "Experimental psychology" (a Wikipedia Category) which appears to actually work as a science. He says it's clear in his field that DSM (Diagnostics & Statistics Manual, Psychology's 'Bible' which has no statistics but had to be invented in order to get paid medical insurance) is a fraud and that most psychiatric drug prescriptions and electro-shock treatments are either neutral or harmful. But is it any better to tell hurting people that none of these problems have any medical component to them? God has clearly ordained that we live our entire lives in fallen, biochemical bodies. Should we have 'Sola Scriptura' counselors blaming people's medical problems on their sin? Roger604 (talk) 08:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)