Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Basis in Faith
• The Plan of the Book
• Part I. The Context of Pastoral Psychotherapy
• Chapter 1. God and the World
• The Marks of Healing
• A World Flawed and Good
• The Condition of Western Society
• The Tension of Individual and Community
• God Among the Influences
• Chapter 2. God's Play and Human Community
• Communities Jewish and Christian
• Communities and Their Faiths
• Bion, the Self, and the Group
• Community Distortion and Its Pain
• Choices We Must Make
• Our Gifts to the Community
• Chapter 3. God in the Creation of Selfhood
• The Structure of Experience
• The Transmission of Ego and Culture
• The Role of Internal Space
• Internalizing the Other
• The Re-Articulation of Self
• The Problems in Our Growing
• The Potential for Abuse
• Chapter 4. God's Obstacles: Sin and Evil
• The Rupture of Community
• The Pretense of Control
• Preferred Sins of the Post-Modern West
• The Organization of Sinful Power
• Evil's Invasion of the Self
• The Entrenchment of Sin
• Part II. Pastoral Psychotherapy as the Play of God
• Chapter 5. The Hope of Pastoral Psychotherapy
• Beginnings of Liberation
• Memory as an Opening for Grace
• The Therapist's Contribution
• The Therapist and the Space
• The Ground Rules and the Frame
• The Context for Psychotherapy
• Chapter 6. The Hallowing of the Space
• Community Creates the Space
• Hallowing Through the Therapist
• The Client Hallows the Space
• Chapter 7. Sacred Play in Hallowed Spaces
• Connection, Container, and Reverie
• The Thinker and the Thought
• The Entry into Sabbathing
• The Fertile Middle Phase
• To Exploration and Action
• Chapter 8. Transference, Intersubjectivity, and the Holy Spirit
• Countertransference As an Asset
• The Classic Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
• Transference, Countertransference, and Intersubjectivity
• The Enabling of the Holy Spirit
• Spirit in the Therapy
• Crisis, Participation, Communion
• Chapter 9. Therapist As Bearer of the Spirit: Psychotherapy and Christology
• The Recent History of Christology
• Jesus—How Unique and Unique How?
• Therapist As Christ Figure: How and How Not
• The Meaning of Our Daily Lives
• Suffering—Messianic and Therapeutic
• The Content of the Saving Claim
• Money, Profession, and the State
• Chapter 10. The Play of God: Powerful Selves in Empowering Community
• The Hallowed Space
• Play
• Bursts of Clarity
• Birth into the Hallowed Space
• Therapy As Liberating Multiplicity
• Engaging the New World
• The Messianic Task of Psychotherapy
• The Self and the Community
• Naming the Mystery
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Reference Notes Included