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xiv, 237 pages ; 21 cm |
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1. The clinical approach to the religious care of psychiatric patients -- What is the clinical approach -- Religious care of the patient in a transdisciplinary setting -- A technical vs. a popular approach to religion -- Levels o religious concern in psychiatric patients -- Superficial religious concern -- Conventional religious concern -- Compulsive religious concern -- Religious concern I character disorders -- Authentic religious concern -- 2. Recurrent religious teachings and their psychiatric implications -- Advent or "end of the world" teachings and practices -- Sacramental-liturgical teaching and practices -- Deliverance and ethnic teachings and practices -- Communal and theocratic teachings and practices -- Spiritual gifts and spirit possession teachings and practices -- Mystical teachings and practices -- "Escape from freedom" teachings and practices -- Positive thinking and health teachings and practices -- Conclusion -- 3. Religious symptom pictures of psychiatric patients/James David McNeely and Wayne E. Oates -- The "weak faith" syndrome -- The demand for a Christian doctor -- The "Witch of Endor" syndrome -- Mistaken identity -- Demonic possession -- "The inability to feel forgiven" -- "The Spirit of God has left me" -- Conclusion -- 4. Religious diagnosis and assessment of psychiatric patients -- A brief history of religious diagnosis -- Contemporary religious diagnostic and assessment approaches -- Pastoral assessment |
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5. The religious care of the depressed patient -- Prescientific descriptions of depression -- Theories of depression -- Depression, religious crisis and pastoral strategies -- The crisis of nostalgia and rumination -- The crisis of self-consistency -- The crisis of power and powerlessness in the systems of society -- the crisis of injustice -- The crisis of competence -- The crisis of self-elevation -- The crisis of courage -- 6. The religious care of the schizophrenic patient -- Diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia -- Religious aspects of criteria for schizophrenia -- The incapacity to symbolize -- The incapacity to accept human limitations of the body -- The incapacity for commitment and blunted affect -- Schizophrenia and the ascetic life -- Specific pastoral strategies for caring for schizophrenic patients -- Pastoral presence at the hypocenter of the psychotic break -- The maintenance of human rights of the patient -- Continuity of care for basically human needs of patients -- Use of religious ideation inventory to chart patient's progress -- The development of a post-psychotic bereavement care system -- Assimilation of the "sense residual" of the schizophrenic's thought process -- Impatient treatment process -- Outpatient patient -- 7. Some indications and contraindications for referral for pastoral counseling -- Some indications for pastoral counseling -- Routine pastoral assessment -- Bereavement -- Terminal illness -- Reality-based guilt -- Vocational confusion and lack of direction -- Religious conflicts between family members -- Biblical interpretation -- Religious support of psychiatric treatment -- Post-psychotic convalescent care -- The pastoral care of the family of a patient -- Premature psychiatric referral -- Some contraindications for pastoral counseling -- Total patient rejection -- "Substitute" psychiatrist -- Rejections of psychiatry by other medical specialists -- Therapeutic "dilution" -- Religion as a manipulative tool -- The psychiatric vacuum -- Social involvement -- Conclusion |
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8. Psychotherapy and pastoral counseling a dialogue/Curtis L. Barrett and Wayne E. Oates -- Mothers-in-law -- The shortness of life -- Memory's distortions -- On being in debt to the store -- Anger at exploitation -- On appreciating foreigners -- Divorced persons -- The testing of the powers that be -- The manipulative use of sex -- The "successful prodigal son" -- Learning to relate to strangers who are different -- The making of the psychotherapist and/or pastoral counselor -- The hypothesis of a formulated body of knowledge -- 9. Some characteristics of a healthy religious faith -- Cross-cultural constants in healthy religion -- Suffering -- Hope -- Basic trust -- Curiosity -- Some psychological characteristics of a healthy religious faith -- Comprehensiveness -- "Seeking" -- Ambiguity tolerance -- A sense of humor -- "Graduation" -- Epilogue |
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Church work with the mentally ill.
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Mentally ill -- Care.
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Pastoral psychology.
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Pastoral theology.
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Pastoral Care.
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Psychotherapy.
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Religion and Psychology.
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| LC no. |
78018454 |
| ISBN |
0664213650 |
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