Shared Wisdom
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...
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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.
PrefaceIntroduction1Ch. 1Countertransference: A History of the Concept9Ch. 2The History of Countertransference in Pastoral Care and Counseling26Ch. 3The Relational Paradigm: Postmodern Concepts of Countertransference and Intersubjectivity35Ch. 4The Relational Paradigm in Pastoral Assessment and Theological Reflection61Ch. 5The Relational Paradigm in Pastoral Care86Ch. 6The Relational Paradigm in Pastoral Psychotherapy131Ch. 7Toward a Relational Theology: God-in-Relation181Notes195Index of Names235Index of Subjects238
