Many Voices

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ISBN: 9780800698706 | 0800698703
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Copyright: 7/1/2011

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Many Voices combines theological tradition with the most advanced postmodern theological perspectives and a subtle, highly nuanced introduction to contemporary relational psychoanalysis for pastoral counselors and psychotherapists who help, accompany, and support persons in recognizing and healing especially painful psychic wounds, or longstanding patterns of self-defeating relationships to self and others.

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Introducing Four Case Studies	p. 1
Why Psychoanalytic?	p. 3
Why Pastoral Psychotherapy?	p. 4
Why Postmodern?	p. 13
Why Relational?	p. 17
Postmodern Theology?	p. 18
Psychoanalytic Pastoral Theology: An Oxymoron?	p. 21
A Theological and Theoretical Framework
A Relational Understanding of Persons	p. 35
What Are Human Beings That You Are Mindful of Them?	p. 38
Human Beings Are Good/Human Beings Are Vulnerable	p. 40
Human Beings Are Embodied	p. 41
Human Beings Are Both Alike and Unique	p. 43
Human Beings Are Intrinsically Relational	p. 50
Human Beings Are Multiple	p. 51
Human Beings Are Mutable, Fluid, and in Process	p. 61
Human Beings Are Loving Beings	p. 65
Conclusion	p. 66
A Relational Understanding of God	p. 67
The Multiplicity of God	p. 67
Trinity as Fluid Metaphor	p. 76
Implications toward a Relational Pastoral Praxis	p. 82
Conclusion: A Multiple/Trinitarian, Relational Pastoral Theology	p. 94
A Relational Understanding of Health and Unhealth	p. 95
Human Beings Are Vulnerable; Human Beings Are Both Alike and Unique	p. 96
The Role of Diagnosis in Pastoral Psychotherapy	p. 96
Pastoral Assessment and Theological Reflection	p. 98
The Role of Theory in Diagnosis	p. 98
Pathology, Sin, and Evil: Human Beings Are Good; Human Beings Are Vulnerable	p. 117
Practicing Pastoral Psychotherapy
The Therapeutic Process: Overview and Getting Started	p. 135
Goals of Therapy and Overview of the Therapeutic Process	p. 135
The Initial Phase: Committing to the Therapeutic Relationship	p. 138
Human Beings are Both Good and Vulnerable: Preconditions for Fruitful Therapeutic Work, and Providing a Safe Container	p. 142
Human Beings are Multiple: Meeting the Parts	p. 153
Practical Matters: Particular Challenges for Pastoral Psychotherapists	p. 156
The Middle Phase and Termination: Multiplicity in Action	p. 185
Empathy: Human Beings are Intrinsically Relational	p. 185
Working in the Transference	p. 190
The ôFundamental Ruleö: Free Association	p. 191
Interpretation/Exploration	p. 192
Other Modes of Symbolic Communication	p. 196
Human Beings Are Multiple: Working with the Parts	p. 203
Countertransference and the Use of the Therapist's Self	p. 216
Repetition, ôResistance,ö and ôWorking Through,ö	p. 226
Enactments	p. 227
Empathic Failures and Transmuting Internalization: Human Beings Are Mutable, Fluid, and in Process	p. 231
The ôAnalytic Third,ö	p. 233
The Termination Phase	p. 234
The Therapeutic Sensibility: Chaos, Silence, Love	p. 239
Chaos	p. 239
Silence	p. 242
Therapeutic Love	p. 243
Conclusion	p. 247
Abbreviations	p. 249
Notes	p. 251
Glossary of Psychoanalytic Terms	p. 325
Index of Names	p. 339
Index of Subjects	p. 343
Index of Biblical References	p. 359
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