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Faith and Madness (Hardcover)
Sarah Slagle Arnold; Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson
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Description: Nobody loves a father like his daughter. That truth
comes through powerfully in this memoir. Sarah was enchanted by her
father; she loved him with all her young heart. But when she turned
five, her father began to do strange things. His bizarre behavior
ultimately cost him his job at a major pharmacy in Detroit. The
time was the 1930s, with no medication for manic depressive
disorder. Sarah joins forces with her mother and younger brother to
contain the psychosis that with repeated hospitalizations
relentlessly tightens its hold on her father. When she is seven,
she watches her father's third episode of mania mount and vows
never to let this happen to her--she would be strong with a faith
like her valiant mother's. Nevertheless, when Sarah entered her
second year at Wayne State University, she was gripped by severe
depression and anorexia that almost took her life. Had she
inherited her father's illness? Or had challenges to her Christian
faith during her first year of university caused this depression?
No one knew. The help of a department store, an astute
psychiatrist, and an Anglican priest illustrate the interplay
between financial, psychological, and spiritual resources in
unraveling the mystery of Sarah's depression. Endorsements: ""Sarah
Slagle Arnold's memoir manages the great feat of being harrowing
and genuinely uplifting at the same time. It is adroitly observed
and shot through with great feeling for an era, for the struggles
of those around her, and for her own struggles. The fact of her
faith is exactly that--a fact that remains in her life and shows
the depth and importance of spiritual commitment. This is a brave
and loving book."" --Baron Wormser, Fairfield University MFA
Program ""Faith and Madness takes us on a journey into the soul,
allowing us to share in an experience of inner healing at the
depths where spirituality and psychology converge. Thank you Sarah
Slagle Arnold for this courageous book "" --Dale T. Irvin, New York
Theological Seminary ""It would be hard to find a memoir that is
more honest, that inquires into the life of a family and the
growth--and testing--of a religious faith with greater intensity
than Sarah Slagle Arnold's Faith and Madness. It insists that
clarity and charity are not mutually exclusive, and that sometimes
faith and hope are hard to tell apart. Brava "" --Richard Hoffman,
Emerson College About the Contributor(s): Sarah Slagle Arnold (PhD,
University of Michigan) is a psychologist/psychoanalyst and writer
living in Maine. For thirty years she was in private practice in
New York City and on the faculty of the Postgraduate Center for
Mental Health. She is a graduate of New York Theological Seminary.
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