Description
Book SynopsisFor those practicing and teaching pastoral counseling, it offers historical insights into the field.
Trade ReviewMyers-Shirk has provided us with a clear, rather thorough and accurate history of the pastoral care and counseling movement during the period that she treats. -- James N. Lapsley Journal of Pastoral Theology 2009 Raises important and still relevant questions about the relationship of psychology, culture, and pastoral practice. -- A.W. Klink Religious Studies Review 2010 Through lucid descriptions and sensitivity to her subject, she offers a significant historical description of contemporary therapeutic presumption. -- Kathryn Lofton American Historical Review 2010 Helping the Good Shepherd defines the history of pastoral care and counseling in the United States. Scholars and practitioners in those areas will surely welcome her meticulous descriptions of key figures and debates in their field... It deserves a wide scholarly audience. -- Matthew S. Hedstrom Journal of Church History 2010
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Anton Boisen and the Scientific Study of Religion
2. The Methodology of Clinical Pastoral Education
3. The Minds of Moralists
4. From Adjustment to Autonomy
5. Democracy and the Psychologically Autonomous Individual
6. An Ethic of Relationships
7. Gendered Moral Discourse
8. The Language of Rights and the Challenge to the Domestic Ideal
9. Resurrection of the Shepherd
10. Christian Counseling and the Conservative Moral Sensibility
Epilogue
Notes
Index
