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Helping the Good Shepherd

Pastoral Counselors in a Psychotherapeutic Culture, 1925-1975
  • ISBN-13: 9780801890475
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Susan E. Myers-Shirk
  • Price: AUD $124.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2009
  • Format: Hardback 320 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of science [PDX]
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This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship between religion and science in the twentieth century, Susan E. Myers-Shirk locates this sensibility in the counselors' intellectual engagement with the psychological sciences.Informed by the principles of psychology and psychoanalysis, pastoral counselors sought a middle ground between science and Christianity in advising anxious parishioners who sought their help for personal problems such as troubled children, violent spouses, and alcohol and drug abuse. Shirk finds that gender relations account in part for the great divide between the liberal and conservative moral sensibilities in pastoral counseling. She demonstrates that as some pastoral counselors began to advocate women's equality, conservative Christian counselors emerged, denouncing more liberal pastoral counselors and secular psychologists for disregarding biblical teachings. From there, the two sides diverged dramatically.Helping the Good Shepherd will appeal to scholars of American religious history, the history of psychology, gender studies, and American history. For those practicing and teaching pastoral counseling, it offers historical insights into the field.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Anton Boisen and the Scientific Study of Religion2. The Methodology of Clinical Pastoral Education3. The Minds of Moralists4. From Adjustment to Autonomy5. Democracy and the Psychologically Autonomous Individual6. An Ethic of Relationships7. Gendered Moral Discourse8. The Language of Rights and the Challenge to the Domestic Ideal9. Resurrection of the Shepherd10. Christian Counseling and the Conservative Moral SensibilityEpilogueNotesIndex

""It is rare that contemporary questions about religion and health are historicized to the degree evident in this meticulously researched book.""

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