Critical Caring: A Feminist Model for Pastoral Psychology

by Valerie M. Demarinis

Valerie DeMarinis persuasively argues that the use of religious beliefs, symbols, and rituals--as well as other resources of the community of faith--is crucial to the therapeutic encounter in pastoral psychotherapy. Balancing "careful judgment" and "appropriate concern," DeMarinis constructs a feminist methodology of critical caring. Synthesizing her theoretical model from the fields of pastoral theology, feminist hermeneutics, and the psychology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 066422041X
• ISBN13: 9780664220419
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"