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Moving Beyond Individualism in Pastoral Care and Counseling - Reflections on Theory Theology and Practice (Paperback)
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Moving Beyond Individualism in Pastoral Care and Counseling - Reflections on Theory Theology and Practice (Paperback)
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Despite astute critiques and available resources for alternative
modes of thinking and practicing, individualism continues to be a
dominating and constraining ideology in the field of pastoral
psychotherapy and counseling. Philip Rieff was one of the first to
highlight the negative implications of individualism in
psychotherapeutic theories and practices. As heirs and often
enthusiasts of the Freudian tradition of which Rieff and others are
critical, pastoral theologians have felt the sting of his charge,
and yet the empirical research that McClure presents shows that
pastoral-counseling practitioners resist change. Their attempts to
overcome an individualistic perspective have been limited and
ineffective because individualism is embedded in the field's
dominant theological and theoretical resources, practices, and
organizational arrangements. Only a radical reappraisal of these
will make possible pastoral counseling practices in a
post-individualistic mode. McClure proposes several critical
transformations: broadening and deepening the operative theologies
used to guide the healing practice, expanding the role of the
pastoral counselor, reimagining the operative anthropology,
reclaiming sin and judgment, nuancing the particular against the
individual, rethinking the ideal outcome of the practices, and
reimagining the organizational structures that support the
practices. Only this level of revisioning will enable this ministry
of the church to move beyond its individualistic limitations and
offer healing in more complex, effective, and socially adequate
ways.
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