Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological PerspectiveFortress Press, 2007 - 359 pages This book is a full scale disciplinary framework for pastoral psychotherapists/pastoral counselors at intermediate and advanced levels of clinical training and also for experienced pastoral counselors and psychotherapists in professional practice. It harvests the great potential of postmodern sensibilities to help, accompany, and support individuals, couples, and families in recognizing and healing especially painful psychic wounds, and/or longstanding patterns of self-defeating relationships to self and others. Pamela Cooper-White's widely praised work, which has always integrated cutting-edge notions from the social sciences into pastoral therapy, here takes a distinctive and promising turn toward the relational and the theological. Pastoral psychotherapy, she argues, needs to find its framework in a strongly relational idea of the person, God, and health. Illustrated throughout by four key case studies, Cooper-White shows in Part 1 how multiplicity and relationality provide a dynamic and exciting way of viewing human potential and pain. In Part 2 she unfolds the practical applications of this paradigm for a strongly empathic therapeutic relationship and process. |
Contents
A Theological and Theoretical Framework | 30 |
What Are Human Beings That You Are Mindful of Them? | 33 |
Human Beings Are GoodHuman Beings Are Vulnerable | 35 |
Human Beings Are Embodied | 36 |
Human Beings Are Both Alike and Unique | 38 |
Human Beings Are Intrinsically Relational | 45 |
Human Beings Are Multiple | 46 |
Human Beings Are Mutable Fluid and in Process | 56 |
The Middle Phase and Termination Multiplicity in Action | 180 |
Working in the Transference | 185 |
Free Association | 186 |
InterpretationExploration | 187 |
Other Modes of Symbolic Communication | 191 |
Working with the Parts | 198 |
Countertransference and the Use of the Therapists Self | 211 |
Repetition Resistance and Working Through | 221 |
Human Beings Are Loving Beings | 60 |
Conclusion | 61 |
A Relational Understanding of God | 62 |
Trinity as Fluid Metaphor | 71 |
Implications toward a Relational Pastoral Praxis | 77 |
A MultipleTrinitarian Relational Pastoral Theology | 89 |
A Relational Understanding of Health and Unhealth | 90 |
Human Beings Are Vulnerable Human Beings Are Both Alike and Unique | 91 |
Pastoral Assessment and Theological Reflection | 93 |
Human Beings Are Good Human Beings Are Vulnerable | 112 |
Practicing Pastoral Psychotherapy | 130 |
Committing to the Therapeutic Relationship | 133 |
Preconditions for Fruitful Therapeutic Work and Providing a Safe Container | 137 |
Meeting the Parts | 148 |
Particular Challenges for Pastoral Psychotherapists | 151 |
Enactments | 222 |
Human Beings Are Mutable Fluid and in Process | 226 |
The Analytic Third | 228 |
The Termination Phase | 229 |
The Therapeutic Sensibility Chaos Silence Love | 234 |
Silence | 237 |
Therapeutic Love | 238 |
Conclusion | 242 |
Abbreviations | 244 |
Notes | 246 |
Glossary of Psychoanalytic Terms | 320 |
Index of Names | 334 |
Index of Subjects | 338 |
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