FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Founder and director of the widely respected Duke University Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health, Dr. Harold Koenig shares the remarkable story of how his personal trials because the catalyst for pioneering research that is changing the heart of medicine. He describes his turbulent youth, expulsion from medical school, and battling mental illness; he refers to his ongoing battle with chronic and debilitating physical disease in terms of the insights it gives him for his work. And he recounts the striking realization of God’s call. From here he presents research concerning the impact of religion on mental and physical health, and challenges individuals and churches to develop constructive ways of implementing the healing connection that can be found in faith.
Harold G. Koenig, M.D., completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, his medical school training at the University of California at San Francisco, and his geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and biostatistics training at Duke University Medical Center. He is the authoer of more than two dozen books and over 200 professional journal articles or book chapters detailing the results of his reasearch on the connections beetween religious faith and mental and physical health. he is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine and of Science & Theology News. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
FROM THE PGC TEAM:
This is a story of a physician’s search for the link between faith and health. Koenig presents research concerning the impact of religion on mental and physical health, challenges individuals and churches to develop constructive ways of implementing the healing connection that can be found in faith.
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