Minding the Soul: Pastoral Counseling as Remembering

Ministers, priests, rabbis, physicians, and therapists faced with their awesome role will appreciate Ashbrook’s clear way of integrating medicine, psychology, and theology into a consistent framework for therapeutic practice.

Part One unfolds the dimensions of being humanphysiological, depth-psychological, interpersonalto show how patterns of mere survival can be changed to patterns of growth. Part Two describes how to engage the souls of people in pain. It offers specific, step-by-step techniques to enable people psychically to turn again to life. Part Three presents the fuller picture of meaning-making activitysoul-making-that is the heart of human life, beginning with the counselor’s own.