Minding the Soul: Pastoral Counseling as Remembering

by James B. Ashbrook

Ministers, priests, rabbis, physicians, and therapists faced with their awesome role will appreciate Ashbrook's clear way of integrating medicine, psychology, and theology into a consistent framework for therapeutic practice. Part One unfolds the dimensions of being humanphysiological, depth-psychological, interpersonalto 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 activitysoul-making-that is the heart of human life, beginning with the counselor's own.

300 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1995