Leeds author documents how crisis of faith led to mental health decline - and how Coventry City helped him heal ccfc
was parked as he found God and began dedicating himself to Christianity. He worked as teacher in a church school and was also an Anglican minister, although the crisis of faith that would eventually descend upon him sent his mental health spiralling.
"A lot ended in 1985,” James said. “My career in a church school, my life as an Anglican minister, and then I had a huge hole in my life. My attachments had gone and I sought to plug the God-shaped gap with relationships, for which I was not in the slightest bit prepared. It's very difficult to replace God, the church and your partner in one person and you shouldn't really try.started to go down when I started to doubt my Christian faith.
He insists the psychotherapist was a great help but the professional help is not the only factor he believes aided him on his journey to an improved mental state. In 1987, he went back to watching his beloved Coventry City and described the resumption of his love affair with the Sky Blues as a “breakthrough”.
Attachment is a consistent theme in the story of his life and attachment theory is a passion of his. It is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory concerning relationships between humans. It outlines that young children need to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for normal social and emotional development.“My two great passions are attachment theory and Coventry City,” he said. “They were the two therapies that brought my life back around.
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