“Siegel (2012) complains, “[If] we have not made an effort to define the mind and a healthy mind, how can clinicians help people strengthen and vitalize their minds?” (p. 38–6). Rooted in a resistance to viewing human beings as more than merely material beings, this failure to define a healthy mind/soul/self necessarily leads to a number of second-tier misconstruals.“

Child Sexual Trauma, Dissociation, and the Soul: A Christian Psychology Conceptualization
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“The permutations of human resistance to God are myriad—its devastating effects, pervasive. Due to its inherent insult to the divine image in humanity, its soul-deforming concomitants, and ultimately its disruption of the soul’s God-oriented dynamic, perhaps the most heinous form of interpersonal opposition to God’s doxological and redemptive agendas is child sexual abuse (see Mat 18:6).“

Child Sexual Trauma, Dissociation, and the Soul: A Christian Psychology Conceptualization

“The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven

18 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

Causing to Stumble

6 “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7 Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! 8“

Matthew 18