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Craig Bergland's Reviews > Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
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bookshelves: christianity, contemplation, prayer, spirituality, memoir, health, psychology, self-help, autobiography, contemporary-issues, illness-and-healing, sociology
Feb 16, 2015
bookshelves: christianity, contemplation, prayer, spirituality, memoir, health, psychology, self-help, autobiography, contemporary-issues, illness-and-healing, sociology
Read 2 times. Last read June 30, 2022 to July 5, 2022.
This is an absolutely dismal book that clearly mistakes dysthymia for acedia. Because of that, it mischaracterizes what is a very real psychological condition for a sin - to be fair, as did the medieval writers the author follows. While the author is certainly free to understand her own struggles any way she likes, this book has the potential to do great harm to others by attempting to convince them that their psychological condition is sinful and little more than a matter of shaping up.
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February 16, 2015
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spirituality
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memoir
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health
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psychology
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self-help
June 30, 2022
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June 30, 2022
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sociology
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illness-and-healing
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contemporary-issues
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autobiography
July 5, 2022
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