Book Review: Wayfaring: A Christian Approach to Mental Health by Warren Kinghorn

In this insightful book, Dr. Warren Kinghorn decries the body-as-machine metaphor that dominates the American psychiatric community. Instead, he embraces Thomas Aquinas’s image of humans as wayfarers or pilgrims on a journey who need companions to come alongside them and help them grow. Kinghorn argues this view treats people with dignity, which is impossible when they are seen as machines that need to be “fixed.”