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Books by Marcia A. Murphy, MHI
Marcia’s writing is volunteer work for her church. She receives no income or profit from sales. All proceeds go into the church ministry programs, not to Marcia personally.
“Your writing is very valuable to explain why spirituality is important
in the world of mental health.”
Rev Prof Emeritus Chris CH Cook, University of Durham, UK
Murphy, Marcia A. Knitting with Barbed Wire: Understanding the Factor of Religion in Mental Illness & Health. Eugene: Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2024.
Author’s book webpage: Knitting With Barbed Wire: Understanding the Factor of Religion in Mental Illness & Health by Marcia A. Murphy
Murphy, Marcia A. The Compassionate Psychiatrist: Redefining Mental Healthcare. Eugene: Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2024.
Author’s book webpage: The Compassionate Psychiatrist by Marcia A. Murphy
Murphy, Marcia A. Homeless: The Unbefriended Poor. Eugene: Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2023.
Author’s book webpage: Homeless
Murphy, Marcia A. Schizophrenia & Suicide: Finding Hope, Meaning, and Direction. Eugene: Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2023.
Author’s book webpage: Schizophrenia & Suicide: Finding Hope, Meaning, and Direction by Marcia A. Murphy
Murphy, Marcia A. A Small Handbook of Mental Health: Portal to a New Life. Eugene: Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2022.
Author’s book webpage: Small Handbook of Mental Health
Murphy, Marcia A. Reflections on the Meaning of Mental Integrity: Recovery from Serious Mental Illness. Eugene: Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2021.
Author’s book webpage: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666708899/reflections-on-the-meaning-of-mental-integrity/
Murphy, Marcia A. The Collected Writings of Marcia A. Murphy: Christus Magnus Medicus Sanat (Christ, the Great Physician, Heals). Eugene: Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2020.
Author’s book webpage: https://hopeforrecovery.com/collected-writings/
Murphy, Marcia A. To Loose the Bonds of Injustice: The Plight of the Mentally Ill and What the Church Can Do. Eugene: Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2018.
Author’s book webpage: https://www.hopeforrecovery.com/to-loose-the-bonds-of-injustice/
Allbooks Review International Editor’s Choice Award for 2011 Finalist
Murphy, Marcia A. Voices in the Rain: Meaning in Psychosis. Cedar Rapids, IA: Eagle Book Bindery, 2010. Eugene: Wipf & Stock Publishers, Reprint 2018.
Author’s book webpage: https://www.hopeforrecovery.com/voices-rain-meaning-psychosis/
Marcia A. Murphy Autumn 2019
“For I have trained myself
and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought.”
― Johannes Climacus
by Søren Kierkegaard
Marcia A. Murphy (b. 1954–) has published articles, essays, and works of creative nonfiction in professional psychiatric journals, five anthologies, the University of Iowa website Daily Palette, and the Daily Iowan and Quad City Times newspapers. She has also written a book-length memoir, Voices in the Rain: Meaning in Psychosis, which is the story of her life, experience with mental illness, and recovery which is also a polemic and an apologetic based on the problem of evil. Experts in the field from Harvard, Yale, Boston University, the University of Iowa, and elsewhere have provided endorsements in support of this memoir.
Marcia A. Murphy, 2024
In 2018, Wipf & Stock Publishers, Resource Publications, released Ms. Murphy’s second major work, To Loose the Bonds of Injustice: The Plight of the Mentally Ill & What the Church Can Do, which combines memoir and a scholarly review of history, and reflects the author’s spiritual and psychological journey in life.
The Collected Writings of Marcia A. Murphy, Christus Magnus Medicus Sanat (Christ, the Great Physician, Heals), was released in March 2020. View Author Video above for more information.
Published 12/07/2021: Reflections on the Meaning of Mental Integrity: Recovery from Serious Mental Illness. Summary Here
2022 was an eventful year with the publication of Marcia’s 5th book, A Small Hanbook of Mental Health: Portal to a New Life. Summary and where to order: Small Handbook of Mental Health
2023. Schizophrenia & Suicide: Finding Hope, Meaning, and Direction, Marcia’s 6th book. Summary HERE
Homeless: The Unbefriended Poor is Marcia’a 7th book (2023). See summary HERE
Marcia A. Murphy, writer, mental health advocate, age 70, 2024
In 2024, Resource Publications released Marcia’s eighth book:
The Compassionate Psychiatrist: Redefining Mental Healthcare. This memoir and tribute to Dr. Russell Noyes Jr, reveals how one man, a legacy in the University of Iowa Psychiatric Department, carried out his vision of showing humane and compassionate care for those who are usually neglected and shunned by the greater society. Summary HERE
Also in 2024, a ninth book was released: Knitting with Barbed Wire: Understanding the Factor of Religion in Mental Illness & Health.
Ms. Murphy has read her work on WSUI, the University of Iowa’s radio station on the program Talk of Iowa, Live from the Java House. She has also read on live television. See the link below for a listing of her presentations. In recent years she has volunteered at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in the Patients’ Library where she was the statistician. Earlier she received the Above and Beyond Award for her work with a handicapped pediatric patient. Currently, Marcia is a church volunteer worker.
CONTACT
Email: murphyma87533@gmail.com
A Listing of Marcia A. Murphy’s Presentations
Marcia’s Photos: Her Own Road to Recovery