Foundations of pastoral counselling
Subtitle: integrating philosophy, theology and psychotherapy
By: Neil Pembroke
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780334055358
Subjects: Pastoral counseling
Description: 'Foundations of Pastoral Counselling' offers a completely new approach to its subject, through an integration of philosophical ideas, theological thought, and psychotherapeutic psychology. Using the work of philosophers including Martin Buber, Simone Weil and Soren Kierkegaard to begin the conversation in each chapter, the author then draws on relevant theologians and psychotherapeutic thinkers to enrich the dialogue. The result is a rich, multi-faceted, and often surprising round-table discussion about the fundamental issues in pastoral counselling.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Respect for the uniqueness of the counsellee, or resisting the totalizing tendency; title: Empathy and the body, or the quest for participatory sense-making; title: Deep listening, or being formed in the discipline of attention; title: Conditions for genuine dialogue, or it's the relationship that heals; title: 'Relational humanness' and 'relational justice', or caring for two worlds; title: Revising faulty thinking, or a Socratic approach to healing 'belief-sickness'; title: Facilitating self-challenge, or learning the art of indirection; title: Working with counsellee images, or exploring the 'metaphors we live by'; title: Connecting with a community of hope, or pastoral rituals that shine a light; title: Concluding reflection: it's also about personal spirituality.