Helping the Good Shepherd: Pastoral Counselors in a Psychotherapeutic Culture, 1925-1975

by Susan E. Myers-Shirk

This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship between religion and science in the twentieth century, Susan E. Myers-Shirk locates this sensibility in the counselors' intellectual engagement with the psychological sciences.

Informed by the principles of psychology and psychoanalysis, pastoral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801890470
• ISBN13: 9780801890475
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 8.8"