This audio-book is a bit weird. It started with this long tangent on why we should pray, before being quite scientific about the psychology of telling yourself that you are good enough. I don’t think “scientific prayer” is a thing, nor do I think that it should be a thing. 

There are maybe 2 or 3 good ideas in this book, but they are wrapped so deeply in “divine quest” and “faith” and “Jesus” that they are completely unusable (at least to me). There is also something deeply disturbing about a book from 1963 talking about psychology and science. Maybe my train of thought is simply to deeply rooted in atheism, but this book made me uncomfortable. This is one of the best selling books of all time, and it says that the only way to become healthy and heal from a wound; is faith (wtf). I wonder what long-lasting negative impacts this has had on society and medicine. 

I think this book could be worth reading if you have read a lot of other self-help books that are newer. The book does offer some interesting perspectives on sleep that are very much still relevant in newer literature. In general, stay away from this book.