Abstract
In this article, the writer notes that "Effective Biblical Counseling" is the best-selling self-help book by Gold Medallion Award-winning author Dr. Larry Crabb. The writer explains that the book combines elements of psychology and counseling with spirituality and theology, aimed specifically at those who follow the Christian faith. The writer discusses that Crabb's book provides simple explanations for how to integrate God into one's everyday life. The writer concludes with the belief that joy and happiness can be attained through the biblical counseling of wanting to please God and relegating one's own problems to the back burner to make room for worshiping and following the Lord in one's daily life.

From the Paper
"Writing in the first person allows the reader to readily relate to his ideas and connect with the emotions he describes. Thus when he offers solutions the reader is able to also heal oneself because a bond has already been created.
"Crabb repeatedly turns to the Bible and frequently cites familiar stories and pertinent passages to support his counseling. He never loses an opportunity to bring God, the Lord, Christ into the picture and this also helps the reader to understand that it is not Crabb who offers healing but the Lord and this is who they need to turn to in times of personal struggle."

Tags:spirituality, Christ, struggle, happiness

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This book review of Christian psychotherapist Larry Crabb's "Connecting" highlights transformationist psychology. According to Crabb, psychotherapy must be transformed into spiritual healing through the community of faith.

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"Connecting identifies common areas of interest in psychological discipline and professional practice on the one hand and religious experience and practice on the other. It is plain that it integrates elements of theology and psychology. His stance is transformationist in that he sees tension between the secular psychological discipline's approach to healing psychoemotional distress and the approach of religious sensibility to the same thing. He argues that the tension is best resolved on the side of spirituality in the context of church community He articulates..."

Tags:Psychology, transformationist, humanistic psychology, theology, spirituality, community of faith, transformationist practice, integrative theology

Abstract
This paper shows how Thomas Berger's novel, "Little Big Man", forces the reader to reconsider accepted versions of the history of the West and to see the Cheyenne Indians as more than barbarians. The west was not simply a place for adventure and myth, but a violent place filled with loss on all sides.

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"Thomas Berger's Little Big Man is a connection between fictional narratives and historical writing in which he gives images of the Cheyenne's lifestyles, beliefs, and practices. Berger revisits the world of the American West, calling into question many of the popular ideas of the West. Little Big Man pairs the development of the West with the life of the narrator, Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb's life and encounters with various characters allow for an insight into the culture of the Cheyenne. Berger shows the reader both sides of the Cheyennes in his portrayal of them as being warriors and compassionate people."

Tags:native-american, Jack, Crabb, Last, Stand

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This paper examines how in the two novels "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo and "Little Big Man" by Thomas Berger, individuals are changed greatly by war. It discusses how although both novels show war as a foolish endeavor which no one really wins, the authors treat war in different ways. It analyzes how Berger includes scenes of battle in his book, while Trumbo concentrates on the aftermath of war in the form of one blinded and crippled individual whose outer life has been taken completely from him, leaving him only an inner life of memory and immediate sensation. It also looks at how Berger presents his images of war in a comic manner, highlighting the foolishness and insanity of war through exaggeration and in his choice of details and how Trumbo's entire book represents the futility of war and the horror for those who are wounded.

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"Jack Crabb changes in various ways throughout the novel, shifting his personality to fit into the different worlds he finds himself in, first a settler, then an Indian, then a cavalry soldier, and always a man seeking to keep ahead of his fate. For Jack, war has different faces, depending on which side he is on at the time. This fact alone shows how war changes him, for he becomes what others want him to be. When with the Indians, he is told, "My son, those are white people that we are going to destroy" (Berger 91). When he is with the cavalry, he hears similar sentiment about how they are going to kill the Indian. For the real effect of war on the human psyche, there is Custer, who seems to be veering into insanity as he continues his campaign. War itself is depicted as insane, and it is not surprising that some of the warriors are as well, especially a committed leader like Custer."

Tags:horror, cripple, soldier, jack, crabb