Integrate Biblical spirituality into psychotherapy and examine
centuries-old answers to modern psychological questions! The Joint
Commision on the Accreditation of Hospitals now mandates taking
spiritual assessments of all patients. This book is devoted to
helping therapists employ Biblical spirituality in the actual
treatment program. Biblical Stories for Psychotherapy and
Counseling: A Sourcebook organizes the wisdom of the Old Testament
into episodes that can shed light on specific psychological issues.
From the familiar to the obscure, these stories can help us better
understand self-esteem, loyalty and obligations, decision making,
temptation, anger, morality, various disorders, family dynamics,
support systems, developmental issues, recovery issues, aging,
suicidal behavior, and more. From the authors: As brilliant and as
penetrating as Freud's insights are, they are limited in the sense
that Freud relied heavily on Greek myth and literature for his
models and ideas. His view of man was in many ways that of the
Greeksa view that concentrated on the pathological underside of man
and on the bedrock of his developmental problems. The Greeks could
never really shake the sense of doom, the foreboding and the
fatalism that led so many great figures in Greek literature and in
real life Greek history to depression and, in a surprising number
of cases, to suicide. In contrast, the focus of the Bible is far
more optimistic; depression can be successfully dealt with, and
suicide is a sad error that should beand usually can beavoided. It
encourages people to hope and teaches that day-to-day human effort
has a purpose and meaning and that heroism is not a fair or useful
aim for man to set for himself. The Bible offers the hope of
filling every moment of human life with greater meaning and
feeling. New solutions to mental health problems are always
welcome. Ours is a new approach, yet a very old one. We present
stories that offer a vast treasure of knowledge and wisdom about
the way people think and act, and why they do so. The stories are
drawn from the Hebrew Bible, a compendium whose latest books are
already twenty-four hundred or so years old. Yet, through all those
centuries, the basic story of man's searching and yearning has
changed little. We shall concentrate on the psychological meaning
of these narratives and what they tell us about how their
characters dealt with challenges of family, handicap, depression,
and more. You'll also find information drawn from modern clinical
research that parallels the Biblical narratives. The wisdom gained
from these ancient stories is applied to help people gain
self-understanding and deal with their own situations today. For
psychotherapists, these Biblical foundation stories can be used as
a basis for integrating spirituality into psychotherapy. The story
of Moses, who overcame a speech problem, can be applied to the
problems of a Midwestern college student, and the account of David
and Goliath can help a businessman overcome his fears of lack of
macho. A small sample of the Bible storiesand their clinical
implicationsthat you'll find in this volume: the foundation of
self-esteem: Saul the courage to emigrate: Abraham assuming
responsibility for one's self: Lot's wife focusing on one's main
aim: Sarah and Hagar dealing with commandments: Abraham and Isaac
dealing with temptations: Adam and Eve drunkenness and disrespect:
Noah reciprocity between generations: Naomi and Ruth amoral
intellectualism: Balaam aging: Ecclesiastes dealing with
disability: Moses and Aaron abandonment: David protected
regression: Jonah Biblical Stories for Psychotherapy and
Counseling: A Sourcebook will become a well-used reference in your
professional/teaching collection. These Biblical stories will be
helpful to therapists, cle
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