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v Contents Preface vii Introduction 1 Introducing Four Case Studies, 1 N Why Psychoanalytic? 3 N Why Pastoral Psychotherapy? 4 N Why Postmodern? 13 N Why Relational? 17 N Postmodern Theology? 18 N Psychoanalytic Pastoral Theology: An Oxymoron? 21 PART 1 A Theological and Theoretical Framework CHAPTER 1 A Relational Understanding of Persons 35 What Are Human Beings That You Are Mindful of Them? 38 N Human Beings Are Good/Human Beings Are Vulnerable, 40 N Human Beings Are Embodied, 41 N Human Beings Are Both Alike and Unique, 43 N Human Beings Are Intrinsically Relational, 50 N Human Beings Are Multiple, 51 N Human Beings Are Mutable, Fluid, and in Process, 61 N Human Beings Are Loving Beings, 65 N Conclusion, 66 CHAPTER 2 A Relational Understanding of God 67 The Multiplicity of God, 67 N Trinity as Fluid Metaphor, 76 N Implications toward a Relational Pastoral Praxis, 82 N Conclusion: A Multiple/Trinitarian, Relational Pastoral Theology, 94 CHAPTER 3 A Relational Understanding of Health and Unhealth 95 Human Beings Are Vulnerable; Human Beings Are Both Alike and Unique, 96 N The Role of Diagnosis in Pastoral Psychotherapy, 96 N Pastoral Assessment and Theological Reflection, 98 N The Role of Theory in Diagnosis, 98 N Pathology, Sin, and Evil: Human Beings Are Good; Human Beings Are Vulnerable, 117 vi Contents PART 2 Practicing Pastoral Psychotherapy CHAPTER 4 The Therapeutic Process: Overview and Getting Started 135 Goals of Therapy and Overview of the Therapeutic Process, 135 N The Initial Phase: Committing to the Therapeutic Relationship, 138 N Human Beings Are Both Good and Vulnerable: Preconditions for Fruitful Therapeutic Work, and Providing a Safe Container, 142 N Human Beings Are Multiple: Meeting the Parts, 153 N Practical Matters: Particular Challenges for Pastoral Psychotherapists, 156 CHAPTER 5 The Middle Phase and Termination: Multiplicity in Action 185 Empathy: Human Beings Are Intrinsically Relational, 185 N Working in the Transference, 190 N The “Fundamental Rule”: Free Association, 191 N Interpretation฀ ฀ ฀ /Exploration, 192 N Other Modes of Symbolic Communication, 196 N Human Beings Are Multiple: Working with the Parts, 203 N Countertransference and the Use of the Therapist’s Self, 216 N Repetition, “Resistance,” and “Working Through,” 226 N Enactments, 227 N Empathic Failures and Transmuting Internalization: Human Beings Are Mutable, Fluid, and in Process, 231 N The “Analytic Third,” 233 N The Termination Phase, 234 CHAPTER 6 The Therapeutic Sensibility: Chaos, Silence, Love 239 Chaos, 239 N Silence, 242 N Therapeutic Love, 243 N Conclusion, 247 Abbreviations 249 Notes 251 Glossary of Psychoanalytic Terms 325 Index of Names 339 Index of Subjects 343 Index of Biblical References 359 ...

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