OUT OF THE DEPTHS

Encountering Depression

Experiences of darkness, depression, dereliction are so much a part of maturing into the depths of friendship with God. We need people who can be true to their experience and share it with us . ‘Epilogue', Wendy Robinson

Since its first publication in 1990, this candid, personal account of depression, and recovery from ‘out of the depths', has helped many to come to terms with their own experiences, or provide support to other sufferers. It was by continuing to say the Psalms and read the Bible, through force of habit, that the author discovered voices which penetrated his darkness and confusion.

Wendy Robinson, the writer of the Epilogue, pays a warm tribute to Gonville ffench-Beytagh, with whom she shares an understanding of the challenge presented by depression for the Church and for the Christian faith. As a Christian and a psychotherapist, she contributes her own insights into the nature and treatment of depression, and its liberating potential.

GONVILLE FFRENCH-BEYTAGH (1912-91) spent much of his life in South Africa , becoming Dean of Salisbury ( Harare ) and later Johannesburg . He opposed apartheid, which led to his imprisonment in 1971-2 and subsequent exile to England , where he spent the last years of his life. He was also a respected preacher, spiritual director and author, whose works include Encountering Darkness , an account of his imprisonment, and Facing Depression , the latter also published by SLG Press.

Fairacres Publications 162

ISBN 978-0-7283-0183-2

Price: £4.00 ISSN 0307-1405

This publication belongs in the series Life is for Living