Finding Language for What Matters Most: Hosting Conversations about Sexuality in Pastoral Counseling
This article draws from intertwined Gospel accounts, in Luke 8 and elsewhere, of Jesus healing a hemorrhaging woman and a 12-year-old girl presumed dead, building on Capps's () claim that their physical symptoms manifested intense unconscious anxieties resulting from untenable sexual expectatio...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2015, Volume: 64, Issue: 5, Pages: 663-680 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics RG Pastoral care ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Hemorrhaging woman
B Human Sexuality B Sexual anxiety and marginalization B Luke 8 B Somatic symptom disorder B Conversation B Somatoform disorders B Jesus' healing ministry B LANGUAGE & languages B Donald Capps B Mark Vonnegut B Pastoral Counseling B Jairus's daughter B Loneliness B C. A. Tripp B Sexual counseling B Symptoms |
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| Summary: | This article draws from intertwined Gospel accounts, in Luke 8 and elsewhere, of Jesus healing a hemorrhaging woman and a 12-year-old girl presumed dead, building on Capps's () claim that their physical symptoms manifested intense unconscious anxieties resulting from untenable sexual expectations of their culture. In these cases, healing derives from their capacity to believe in someone who has faith in them (Capps , p. 124). The article encourages contemporary pastoral counselors to attend not only with strenuous professional ethicality but also with subversive moral generosity to minute differences among individuals marginalized due to sexual yearnings perceived to deviate from a presumed societal norm. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-015-0656-2 |