Surrendering the Self: Pastoral Counseling at the Limits of Culture and Psychotherapy

Explicates the meaning and movement of egocentrism, ethnocentrism, multiculturalism, and metaculturalism and the implications for pastoral counseling. Claims that pastoral counseling should try to achieve awareness of the ways in which self and culture bind while faith releases. Opines that pastoral...

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Authors: Hinkle, John E. (Author) ; Hinkle, Gregory A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1992
In: The Journal of pastoral care
Year: 1992, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 103-116
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Explicates the meaning and movement of egocentrism, ethnocentrism, multiculturalism, and metaculturalism and the implications for pastoral counseling. Claims that pastoral counseling should try to achieve awareness of the ways in which self and culture bind while faith releases. Opines that pastoral counseling ought to embrace a multicultural perspective, be viewed as an example of interpathic presence, and have as its goal not the integration of the client's self and his or her culture but rather a surrender and encounter with the Lord.
Contains:Enthalten in: The Journal of pastoral care
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/002234099204600203