PsychoBible

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PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion, and the Holy Book is a book title by American author Armando Favazza, published in 2004.

[edit] Content

PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion, and the Holy Book provides an overview of the Bible’s contents as well as the process leading to the Bible’s creation. Favazza presents objective data on the Bible itself, on how Christians and Jews over the centuries have interpreted these data, and how psychiatry regards them. The book points out Biblical material that has been validated by scholars as well as the vast amount of material that requires faith. His book examines commonly held misconceptions about the Bible as a whole as well as its major passages.

[edit] Chapters

1. God Bless the God Who Has His Own
2. Once Upon a Time the Devil...
3. Don't Spoil the Soup: Women and the Bible
4. Comme Ça: Homosexuality and the Bible
5. God in a Bottle: Alcohol and the Bible
6. Creeping Things: Animals and the Bible
7. Something about the Body
8. Praise the Lord and Pass the Medication: Healing and Feeling Good
9. True, False and Useful: The Spirtual Marketplace, Religion & Psychiatry
10. Back to God and the Bible: Joy and Suffering

[edit] Recognition

PsychoBible received the Creative Scholarship Award presented by the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture which described it as “a classic in the field.” Professor Ezra Griffith of Yale University praised PsychoBible: “Cowards need not pick up this brilliantly written book. Only those courageous enough to explore the nature of their connection – or lack of it – to God and religion.”