Authors: Pamela Cooper-White, Pamela Ooper-White
ISBN-13: 9780800634544, ISBN-10: 0800634543
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: New Edition
Understanding one's personal issues and emotional reactions- one's "countertransference"- has long been recognized as a core competency in ministry. Now new understandings of intersubjectivity, mutual influence, shared wisdom (both conscious and unconscious), and multicultural dynamics in the caring relationship are bringing promising new possibilities and challenges to pastoral practice.
Employing these insights, in this groundbreaking book Pamela Cooper-White offers a new relational paradigm for pastoral assessment and theological reflection. She uses the caregiver's own responses and feelings as a primary instrument for deepening discernment and better care. She innovatively combines postmodern, psychoanalytic, and theological perspectives with illuminating case studies to illustrate this new use of the self in pastoral care, counseling, and psychotherapy.
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | Countertransference: A History of the Concept | 9 |
Ch. 2 | The History of Countertransference in Pastoral Care and Counseling | 26 |
Ch. 3 | The Relational Paradigm: Postmodern Concepts of Countertransference and Intersubjectivity | 35 |
Ch. 4 | The Relational Paradigm in Pastoral Assessment and Theological Reflection | 61 |
Ch. 5 | The Relational Paradigm in Pastoral Care | 86 |
Ch. 6 | The Relational Paradigm in Pastoral Psychotherapy | 131 |
Ch. 7 | Toward a Relational Theology: God-in-Relation | 181 |
Notes | 195 | |
Index of Names | 235 | |
Index of Subjects | 238 |