The tree of healing
Subtitle: psychological & biblical foundations for counseling and pastoral care
By: Roger F. Hurding.
Publisher: Ministry Resources Library
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Pastoral counseling.; Pastoral psychology.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [407]-445.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: PART 1: THE RISE OF THE SECULAR PSYCHOLOGIES -- Introduction: the tree of pastoral care – What is counselling? – Behaviourism: man as machine – Psychoanalysis: man and his instincts – Psychoanalysis: man and society – Personalism: man and self (1) Humanistic psychology -- Personalism: man and self (1) Existential psychology – Transpersonalism: man beyond self – The new therapies -- PART 2: CHRISTIAN REACTION AND RESPONSE – Sinkers, swimmers and strugglers – Route-finding in the forest – Reaching to the word: biblical counselling – Reaching out: relationship counselling – Reaching in: the inner journey – Reaching back: healing the past – The Wonderful Counsellor