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Anton Boisen

Madness, Mysticism, and the Origins of Clinical Pastoral Education
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In Anton Boisen: Madness, Mysticism, and the Origins of Clinical Pastoral Education, Sean J. LaBat provides a critical re-assessment of Anton Boisen's life and work. Based in thorough archival research, LaBat argues that Boisen, who suffered from intermittent severe mental illness, was a creative visionary, a mystic who re-imagined pastoral care and envisioned possibilities for the institutionalized other than shame and stigma. He shows how Boisen elucidated new possibilities in patient-centered health care, community care for the mentally ill, and reconciliation and dialogue between religion and science. Boisen explored the borderland of madness and mysticism, illness and inspiration, and practiced an interdisciplinary approach to his craft that is surprisingly modern and more relevant to the practice of medicine and the practice of religion than ever before.
Chapter 1: Visit to a Little-Known Country Chapter 2: Searching for Meaning in the Madness Chapter 3: How Boisen Interpreted His Experience and Illness Chapter 4: My Friends are Coming to Help Me Chapter 5: Boisen's Productive "Retirement" Chapter 6: The Scientific Seer
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