Is the brain to blame?

“This book is an effort to understand the relationship between the physical, psychic, and spiritual dimensions of the person. It is based on years of its author's experience in the practice of counseling and psychological advising from a Christian perspective. A useful contribution for pastors, counselors, teachers, and leaders.” Samuel Escobar

“We live in an age of suffocating determinism in which all behavior is explained—and even justified—because our brain has programmed us to act that way. The explanation and blame for everything is sought in the fashionable conditioning factors. Now it's the genetic code and the brain's turn. In the last century, it was sought in society and education. Human beings always try to evade the part of responsibility that corresponds to them for their actions. With Is the Brain to Blame?, E. Welch, following in the best tradition of the Reformed school, sheds much light on this contemporary challenge; the author wisely and courageously analyzes, with biblical wisdom, the responsibility of each person in some of the most frequent brain-originated disorders.

“This work is certainly not the last word on the subject, as some of its assertions may become obsolete in the coming years, especially in the area of depression. However, the essential principles that the author expounds will always remain because every illness, whether originating in the brain or not, has a spiritual dimension that must be treated. We are not just a handful of genes; therefore, the Word of God contains the explanation and the ultimate medicine for any form of suffering.” Pablo Martínez Vila (Psychiatrist and writer)