We want to draw together in a helpful way what we have learned in recent years in Britain about the causes and treatment of depression and anxiety, as they affect Christian people.
We also want to suggest ways churches and medical professionals can work together and show that, with appropriate treatment, most Christians can he helped back to active and useful lives.
Rejecting ‘anti-psychiatry’
It needs to be said at the outset that we both reject the central aspects of the current ‘anti-psychiatry’ movement in its Christian and in its secular variants. An example of this, from an evangelical Christian viewpoint, was Nancy Lambrechts’ article, ‘The Depression Industry?’, in the July issue of EN.
