Why Do Christians Shoot Their Wounded?: Helping Not Hurting Those with Emotional Difficulties

It's no sin to hurt.

Thousands of Christians suffer real emotional pain--such as depression, anxiety, obsessiveness. Many other Christians, including prominent leaders, believe emotional problems are the result of sin or bad choices. These attitudes often only add to the suffering of those who hurt.

In this book Dwight Carlson marshals recent scientific evidence that demonstrates many emotional problems are just as physical or biological as diabetes, cancer and heart disease. While he never discounts personal responsibility, Carlson shows from both the Bible and up-to-date medicine why it really is no sin to hurt. Understandably and compellingly, Why Do Christians Shoot Their Wounded? brings profound help for those who hurt and those who counsel.

For those who suffer, here is a powerful liberation from guilt.

For those who care for the suffering, here is vivid proof that those in emotional pain deserve compassion, not condemnation.

Author: Dwight L. Carlson
Publisher: IVP
Published: 04/15/1994
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.17h x 5.44w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780830816668

Review Citation(s):
Christianity Today 01/01/2013 pg. 76

About the Author
Carlson, Dwight L.: -

Dwight L. Carlson, a physician and psychiatrist, lives and works in California. His many books include Living God's Will and Run and Not Be Weary.