After You!: Dialogical Ethics and the Pastoral Counselling Process

By Roger Burggraeve

The subject of this book is pastoral counseling as a particular form ofpastoral care in the Christian context. Central in the reflection staysthe counseling process as dialogue and ethical event, inspirend bythinkers as Levinas, Buber, Honneth, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Nagy, and others. The first part provides building blocks for an interdisciplinaryreflection on different forms and fields of counseling as a qualitativeevent of conversation. The views on the event of dialogue areillustrated on the basis of different forms and fields of conversationthat come from both the pastoral as well as the therapeutic and guidancesetting. Contributors to the first part are: Sheila McNamee, LisbethLipari, Marie-C cile Bertau, Peter Rober, Vangie Bergum, DarciaNarvaez. The second part focuses on the pastoral counselling as 'event ofconversation' whereby our 'dialogical humancondition' takes shape inits own manner. Two seemingly contradictory characteristics are linkedwith each other, namely asymmetry and reciprocity, or better reciprocityin a context of ethical asymmetry, with special attention for thedifferent aspects of responsibility, recognition, power, and visible orhidden forms of violence. The different contributors (Marina Riemslagh, Carrie Doehring, Annelies van Heijst, Axel Li geois, Annemie Dillen, Roger Burggraeve) indicate stepstones for a pastoral relationshipwithout tyranny. Kenneth and Mary Gergen offer a critical postscriptum on the 'missingvoices' to make possible a 'fully relationalethic' in (pastoral)care-giving and counselling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042928980
• ISBN13: 9789042928985
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.6"