Book Review – Healing
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An exceptional book on problems and solutions for the US mental health system.
Book Review – Together
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An eye-opening book on the harmful impact of loneliness and the power of connection to heal its wounds.
Book Review – Fires in the Dark
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A fascinating book that explores healing and healers of trauma and mental illness.
Book Review – Mental Health and the Church
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A book that focuses on reducing mental health stigma in the church and improving church worship environments, primarily for families of children with special needs.
Book Review – I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die
Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A first-person account of experiencing and overcoming depression and suicidality as a Christian.
Book Review – Science over Stigma
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent resource based on facts, logic, and scientific findings for mental health clinicians and advocates in combating misinformation and educating the public to reduce harmful mental health stigma.
Book Review – Educated
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A collection of life stories and memories of a young woman in her experiences of the transformational power of education, friendships, and choosing self to escape the entrapments of poverty, isolation, and a dysfunctional, abusive family system.
Book Review – Antifragile
Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A book that expands upon concepts found in Dr. Nassim Taleb’s previous books Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan.
Book Review – Out of the Cave
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A book on depression from a Christian perspective that effectively addresses mental health stigma and covers a wide range of ideas and natural strategies for addressing depression.
Book Review – Broken Minds
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A good book on personal accounts of depression from a Christian perspective.
Book Review – Get Out of Your Head
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A book written for Christian women about addressing negative thoughts by using the strategy of thought replacement.
Book Review – Spiritual Depression
Len's Star Rating: 1 out of 10. A book that is most useful as a historical example of literature that worsens mental health stigma among Christians.
Book Review – Flirting with Darkness
Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A book that provides a personal account of depression from a Christian viewpoint.
Book Review – Spurgeon’s Sorrows
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A helpful book that is both enlightening and lyrical in its exploration of depression through the life and sermons of Charles Spurgeon.
Book Review – Now I Know Why I’m Depressed
Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A book with Christian spiritual perspectives on depression that reuses content from the author’s previous book, An Answer to Depression.
Book Review – An Answer to Depression
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A reasonable and non-stigmatizing Christian spiritual perspective on depression.
Book Review – What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do: Discouragement & Depression
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A short, positive book on dealing with sadness and depression from a Christian perspective.
Book Review – Downcast
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A comprehensive book on depression written by psychiatrists from a Christian perspective.
Book Review – The Soul of Desire
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A good but complex book on aspects of desire and beauty from a Christian spiritual perspective.
Book Review – I’m Not Supposed to Feel Like This
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A Christian book on anxiety and depression that outlines strategies that predominantly rely on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approaches.