Minding the Soul: Pastoral Counseling as Remembering (Theology and the Sciences)

Ministers priests rabbis physicians and therapists faced with their awesome role will appreciate Ashbrooks clear way of integrating medicine psychology and theology into a consistent framework for therapeutic practice. Part One unfolds the dimensions of being human-physiological depth-psychological interpersonal-to show how patterns of mere survival can be changed to patterns of growth. Part Two describes how to engage the souls of people in pain. It offers specific step-by- step techniques to enable people psychically to turn again to life. Part Three presents the fuller picture of meaning-making activity-soul-making-that is the heart of human life beginning with the counselors own.