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Shared Wisdom

Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling
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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.
Pamel Cooper-White is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. She is author of The Cry of Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church`s Response (Fortress Press, 1995).
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