Faith and Major Mental Illness
Stories, Meditations, and Essays
- Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
How does the process of coping with major mental illness influence the spiritual life? And, also, the reverse: How does faith influence a mental health condition? In this work the author discusses a major mental illness--her own--and delves into whether recovery is possible from a personal perspective. As a person who was devastated by schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and clinical depression, the author takes a look at religious practices like prayer, Scripture reading, and church life. She shares her account of contributing factors in building a healthier day-to-day existence for someone afflicted with significant psychological and social challenges.
Endorsements (2)
“Marcia Murphy provides an honest and engaging account of what it is like to struggle with a major mental illness as a Christian. Describing herself as ‘radical and simple-minded,’ she is at times provocative and controversial, but in this she also seeks to live out her faith with courage and compassion. Murphy provides some revealing reflections on how faith and illness exist in complex interrelationship in the daily realities of human life.”
“In a Christian culture that too often ignores or silences the voices of those who live with major mental health challenges, it is important to listen to those who witness both to the challenges of mental illness and to the goodness and faithfulness of God. Marcia Murphy does this frankly, unsentimentally, and occasionally provocatively, and also reminds us of the goodness and power of human decency and respect.”
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