Braided selves
Subtitle: collected essays on multiplicity, God and persons
By: Pamela Cooper-White
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781606086681
Subjects: Pastoral psychology; Pastoral counseling of; Psychotherapy; Women; Pastoral counseling; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-244).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1.  Thick theory : psychology, theoretical models, and the formation of pastoral counselors; title: 2.  Human development in relational and cultural context; title: 3.  "Higher powers and infernal regions" : models of mind in Freud's Interpretation of dreams and contemporary psychoanalysis and their implications for pastoral theology; title: 4.  Interrogating integration, dissenting dis-integration : multiplicity as a positive metaphor in therapy and theology; title: 5.  Dancing partners : trinitarian theology and the use of the self in pastoral care and counseling; title: 6.  Complicated women: multiplicity are relationality across gender, politics, and culture; title: 7.  The 'Other' within:  multiple selves making a world of difference; title: 8.  "I do not do the good i want, bu the evil I do not want is what I do" : multiplicity - god and evil; title: 9.  Braided selves : theological and psychological reflections on core selves, multiplicity and the sense of cohesion.