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"Editor's Favorite Excerpts" [180 pages] further narrows down the "best of the best quotes" and ideas from the book, "George Q. Cannon's Journal - Exceptional Excerpts" (777 pages) which in turn was extracted from the full 5,000 page Journal of George Q. Cannon. This NEW edition of "Editor's Favorite Excerpts" is an extract from an extract and has added to it a 50 page index to aid you in getting right to the material you are searching for.
"George Q. Cannon's Journal" was mostly handwritten and covers about a fifty year span of time amounting to about 5000 pages in length. I extracted the nuggets from the complete Journal, the 50 year Journal, consisting of about 10% of the content, into a book that is over 500 pages long. It's title is "George Q. Cannon's Journal - Exceptional Excerpts." However, this 90 page volume, "Editor's Favorite Excepts," is an extract from the 500 page extraction or an extraction of an extraction, amounting to what I consider to be "pure cream" and is an excellent introduction into George's life and thinking. This second extraction is about 80 pages long with an orienting introduction, and a chronological overview of George Q. Cannon's life making it a mere 90 page volume. This shorter volume is designed for the reader who is not usually found reading long biographical books but wants to sample some of the thinking of Utah's very famous first U.S. Representative. After Brigham Young died, George Q. Cannon was the most well known and considered by some to be the "brains" of the LDS Church during the last third of the nineteenth century.
Apostle George Q. Cannon was the face of Mormonism to President Lincoln, his successors, and all of America for the last third of the 19th Century. Over 600 pages of the choicest verbatim personal journal excerpts are packed inside this 8.5 x 11 hard bound volume. In addition over 700 foot notes and 7 historical and doctrinal appendices are included, making this the most complete historical and doctrinal picture of one of the greatest ever of the LDS General Authorities. His genius, national notoriety, and shaping of Utah Mormonism was exceeded only by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Even the most crucial and controversial of subjects, almost always shied away from, are herein given a thorough hearing and analysis. You will no longer be able to claim ignorance after reading this earthshaking volume!
The Journals of George Q. Cannon reveals the inspiring, faith-affirming, and life-altering experiences Cannon had as a missionary. Those experiences helped lay the groundwork for a remarkable life that included service as a book and newspaper publisher, a territorial delegate from Utah to the United States Congress, and long-time member of the top leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In this first history of psychotherapy among the Latter-day Saints, Eric G. Swedin describes how modern psychology has affected the "healing of souls” in the LDS community. But he also shows how this community melded its theological doctrines with mainstream psychiatry when secular concepts clashed with fundamental tenets of Mormonism. The psychological professions pervasive in twentieth-century American society were viewed as dangerous by some religious communities. Healing Souls describes the LDS community's mixed feelings about science and modernity: while valuing knowledge, Mormons feared a challenge to faith. Nonetheless, psychology courses were introduced at Brigham Young University, and LDS psychotherapists began to introduce new ideas and practices to the community. Swedin portrays the rise of professional organizations such as the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists, as well as the importance of Allen E. Bergin, first director of the BYU Institute for Studies in Values and Human Behavior. Bergin and others paved the way for the LDS adoption of professional psychotherapy as an essential element of their "cure of souls." Important chapters take up LDS psychopathology, feminist dissent, LDS philosophies of sexuality, and the LDS rejection of mainstream psychotherapy's selfist psychology on the basis of theological doctrines of family salvation, eternalism, and the natural man. Healing Souls contributes to a more complete historical picture of the mental health professions in North America and a better understanding of how religious traditions and psychology have influenced each other.