Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological Perspective

by Pamela Cooper-White

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2007

Overview

This is a must-read textbook for pastoral psychotherapists and pastoral counselors in clinical training as well as a guide for those in professional practice. Cooper-White harvests the great potential of postmodern sensibilities to help, accompany, and support individuals, couples, and families in recognizing and healing especially painful psychic wounds or longstanding patterns of self-defeating relationships to self and others. In Part 1 she shows how multiplicity and relationality provide a dynamic 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.

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Key Features

• Focuses on postmodern practices to help individuals in the church
• Offers practical applications for individuals, couples, and families
• Explores the relationship between spiritual and mental health for effective counseling and therapy

Contents

• A Theological and Theoretical Framework
  • A Relational Understanding of Persons
  • A Relational Understanding of God
  • A Relational Understanding of Health and Unhealth
• Practicing Pastoral Psychotherapy
  • The Therapeutic Process: Overview and Getting Started
  • The Middle Phase and Termination: Multiplicity in Action
  • The Therapeutic Sensibility: Chaos, Silence, Love

Product Details

• Title: Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological Perspective
• Author: Pamela Cooper-White
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 374
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Pastoral psychology; Pastoral counseling; Psychotherapy › Religious aspects--Christianity
• Resource ID: LLS:MANYVOICES
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:30:58Z

About Pamela Cooper-White

Pamela Cooper-White is the Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care, and Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She is the author of Exploring Practices of Ministry, Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling, and Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological Perspective.