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Book Synopsis
Psychiatrist and pastor Dr Pablo Martinez explains how our temperament and personality affect our prayer life.

Trade Review
`A profound, practical and personal book in which the skill of the psychiatrist and the gentleness of the pastor are combined … I cannot imagine any reader failing to be helped by it, as I have been myself.’ -- John Stott

Table of Contents

Contents
About the Author 6
Foreword by John Stott 7
Introduction to the First Edition 9
Introduction to the Revised Edition 11
Part 1: The Psychology of Prayer
1. Different Prayers for Different People Prayer in relation to temperament 14
2. Overcoming Difficulties Emotional problems and prayer 47
3. The Therapeutic Value of Prayer Prayer – a love relationship 91
Questions and Answers
The most frequently asked questions on prayer 125
Part 2: The Apologetics of Prayer
4. Prayer: Psychological Illusion? 134
A psychiatrist’s viewpoint
5. Are All Prayers Alike?
Christian prayer and Eastern meditation 154
Notes 171

Praying with the Grain

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      Publisher SPCK Publishing
      Published 20 January 2012
      ISBN-13 9780857211521
      978-0857211521
      ISBN-10 0857211528
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Psychiatrist and pastor Dr Pablo Martinez explains how our temperament and personality affect our prayer life.

      Trade Review
      `A profound, practical and personal book in which the skill of the psychiatrist and the gentleness of the pastor are combined … I cannot imagine any reader failing to be helped by it, as I have been myself.’ -- John Stott

      Table of Contents

      Contents
      About the Author 6
      Foreword by John Stott 7
      Introduction to the First Edition 9
      Introduction to the Revised Edition 11
      Part 1: The Psychology of Prayer
      1. Different Prayers for Different People Prayer in relation to temperament 14
      2. Overcoming Difficulties Emotional problems and prayer 47
      3. The Therapeutic Value of Prayer Prayer – a love relationship 91
      Questions and Answers
      The most frequently asked questions on prayer 125
      Part 2: The Apologetics of Prayer
      4. Prayer: Psychological Illusion? 134
      A psychiatrist’s viewpoint
      5. Are All Prayers Alike?
      Christian prayer and Eastern meditation 154
      Notes 171

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