Title: The stranger's voice
Description: The Stranger's Voice examines some of Julia Kristeva's major psychoanalytic texts which focus on themes of women's depression, feminine idenity, motherhood, and the need to believe as these themes relate to the power of religious language in a therapeutic relationship. The central thesis of the book is that attention to critiques of religious discourse offered by those (in this case, Julia Kristeva) in the psychoalytic tradition will facilitate a more fully nuanced approach to an interdisciplinary model for pastoral theology.

"The Stranger's Voice is a beautiful testimony to what Julia Kristeva has to offer depressed women when her writings are framed and presented by a thoughtful pastoral theologian. Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer makes a compelling case for the role of the denial of the mother's voice in the development of a woman's self-alienation and resulting depressions, and she does so without resorting to maternal images formed under the aegis of a patriarchal Christianity. She also makes wonderful use of Kristeva's understanding of "for-giving" to envision prospects for healing and renewal. To write knowledgeably about Julia Kristeva's work requires a sophisticated mind, but to make her work truly and genuinely accessible to other women is a pastoral gift. Some women who are experiencing depression will find this book inherently therapeutic while others will find the encouragement they need to seek a counselor who will help her discover the life that is already stirring within them. Men.

Especially those who have sensed that the denial of the mother's voice has played a critical role in their own self-alienation and its melancholy moods, will discover that this book has much to offer them as well." Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary --Book Jacket.
Subjects: Frauenseelsorge, Mental Depression, Psychoanalyse, Feministische Theologie, Feminist theology, Pastoral counseling of, Frau, Church work with women, Christianity, Seelsorge, Depression, Women, Depression, mental, Christian women
People: Julia Kristeva, Julia Kristeva (1941-)