McNish, Jill L,

Transforming shame : a pastoral response / [print] Jill L. McNish. - Binghamton, New York : Haworth Pastoral Press, (c)2004. - ix, 251 pages ; 23 cm.



Shame in the gospel accounts of the life, ministry, and death of Jesus -- What is shame toward a working phenomenological understanding -- The revelatory potential of shame -- Defenses against shame -- Methodology in the use of depth psychology -- In theological study and ministry -- The ministers perspective -- Toward an understanding of shame from perspectives of depth psychology -- Freud's references to shame -- A map of the landscape after Freud -- Karen Horney's "pride system" -- Alice Miller and poisonous pedagogy -- Heinz Kohut's self-psychology -- Shame as archetypal experience : a jungian perspective -- Toward a theology of shame -- Where can I flee from your presence? -- The sick soul -- The paradox : shame as borderline phenomenon -- Between union and separation -- The competing urges toward union and individuation -- Some of depth psychologys accounts for experiences of union -- The oceanic feeling -- Some contributions of Otto Rank -- Contributions of later theorists on the subject of separation-individuation -- Shame and biblical witness -- The New Testament's use of shame -- Reflections on the orientation of the institutional church and its ministers toward the meaning and phenomena of shame -- Ameliorating the church's complicity in fostering toxic shame -- Pastoral responses to toxic shame.



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Shame--Religious aspects--Christianity.

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