Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 186
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-4422-3448-2 • Hardback • September 2014 • $108.00 • (£83.00)
978-1-4422-3449-9 • eBook • September 2014 • $102.50 • (£79.00)
George S. Stavros, PhD, is the executive director of the Danielsen Institute at Boston University and a licensed psychologist.
Steven J. Sandage, PhD, is the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Theology at Boston University. He is a licensed psychologist and director of the Center for Research in Religion and Psychology at the Danielsen Institute.
Foreword
Chapter 1: The Skillful Soul of the Psychotherapist
George Stavros and Steve Sandage
Chapter 2: Reflections on the Effects of a Protestant Girlhood
Nancy McWilliams
Chapter 3: The Welcome Return of the Suppressed: Religion and Psychoanalysis in Dialogue
Marie T. Hoffman
Chapter 4: Religion—“It’s Complicated!”: The Convergence of Race, Class, and Sexuality in
Clinicians’ Reflection on Religious Experience
Phillis Isabella Sheppard
Chapter 5: A Therapist’s Psycho-Spiritual Autobiography with Clinical Implications,
David J. Wallin
Chapter 6: Immanence and Intersubjectivity
Daniel Shaw
Chapter 7: Shared Histories. Emerging Horizons: The Jewish Search for Spirituality and the
Psychoanalytic Ethos
Celia Brickman
Chapter 8: Three Pillars of Therapeutic Attitude
Salman Akhtar
Chapter 9: Response to “Three Pillars of Therapeutic Attitude”
Salman Akhtar, Chris R. Schlauch
Chapter 10: Evocations
Thomas J. Cottle
Conclusion
Merle Jordan
Index
About the authors
In this one-of-a-kind text, Stavros invites master clinicians (and respondents) to reflect on how their religious backgrounds impact their approach to therapy. By taking a hermeneutic approach, this book places religion on par with culture, ethnicity, race and gender and reminds the reader that the history and person of the therapist matters. This book will be a delight to all therapists with religious or spiritual leanings and useful to those working with patients with religious and spiritual commitments.
— Brad Strawn, PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary School of Psychology
Stavros builds a clinic on sacred ground and opens the front door to Spirit, creating opportunity for deeper healing and more profound growth. Benefiting from the wisdom of our ancestors, he asks how religion can guide the human psycho-spiritual journey. Experienced therapists will envision new horizons for treatment, and students will now form careers from a foundational view of spiritual life. For respecting the past, Stavros has innovated, with a true breakthrough. This book is very much needed by our contemporary culture of psychotherapy.
— Lisa Miller, PhD, Lex Law Corp