16 February 2011

Mental Illness Talk by Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas' first talk as part of Fuller Seminary's Integration Symposium was quite overwhelmingly emotional. He gave highlights from his memoir about being married to someone with bipolar disorder.
       It was raw...real...unedited...heart-wrenching... confusing...even funny at points.
Two quotes stick with me:
"The DSM-4 is a legitimating document which helps the therapist do his work when he does not know what the hell he is talking about."
His final statement of the hour-long question and answer time was:
"What I have learned is that all that matters is: 'Jesus is Lord.' Everything else is bullshit."

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