Soul Analysis

What is the soul -- and can psychology and Scripture ever truly agree on the answer?

In Soul Analysis, Dr. Tim Lloyd -- pastor, licensed marriage and family therapist, and founder of Telos Care -- brings twenty-five years of clinical and pastoral experience to one of the most contested questions in Christian counseling: how should believers understand the relationship between psychological theory and biblical truth? Rather than treating faith and science as rivals, Lloyd builds a rigorous, biblically grounded framework rooted in the doctrine of the Imago Dei -- showing that true healing is not mere symptom relief, but the restoration of the whole person made in God's image.

Moving through Christian anthropology, the history of psychology and theology in dialogue, biblical models of healing, and the emerging conversation between genetics, biology, and the soul, this book equips pastors, counselors, and serious students of Scripture to practice soul care that is both clinically informed and doctrinally sound. Case studies, appendices comparing secular and Christian models, and a detailed framework for biblical counseling make this as practical as it is theologically substantive.

For anyone called to shepherd the wounded -- whether from the pulpit, the counseling office, or the kitchen table -- Soul Analysis offers a disciplined, compassionate path forward: one where clinical insight serves the Cross, not the other way around.

-- by Tim Lloyd, Ph.D., D.Min.