TY - BOOK AU - Myers-Shirk,Susan E. TI - Helping the Good Shepherd: pastoral counselors in a psychotherapeutic culture, 1925-1975 T2 - Medicine, science, and religion in historical context SN - 9780801895173 AV - BV4012.2 .M94 2009 U1 - 253.50973/0904 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Baltimore, Md. PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Pastoral counseling KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Liberalism KW - Religious aspects KW - Protestant churches KW - Counseling pastoral KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Libéralisme KW - Aspect religieux KW - Églises protestantes KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Ministry KW - Counseling & Recovery KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Geistliche Begleitung KW - gnd KW - Church history KW - Histoire religieuse KW - USA N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Anton Boisen and the scientific study of religion --; The methodology of clinical pastoral education --; The minds of moralists --; From adjustment to autonomy --; Democracy and the psychologically autonomous individual --; An ethic of relationships --; Gendered moral discourse --; The language of rights and the challenge to the domestic ideal --; Resurrection of the shepherd --; Christian counseling and the conservative moral sensibility; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship between religion and science in the twentieth century, Susan E. Myers-Shirk locates this sensibility in the counselors' intellectual engagement with the psychological sciences. Informed by the principles of psychology and psychoanalysis, pastoral counselors sought a middle ground between science and Christianity in advising anxious parishioners who sought their help for personal problems such as troubled children, violent spouses, and alcohol and drug abuse. Myers-Shirk finds that gender relations account in part for the great divide between the liberal and conservative moral sensibilities in pastoral counseling. She demonstrates that, as some pastoral counselors began to advocate women's equality, conservative Christian counselors emerged, denouncing more liberal pastoral counselors and secular psychologists for disregarding biblical teachings. From there, the two sides diverged dramatically. Helping the Good Shepherd will appeal to scholars of American religious history, the history of psychology, gender studies, and American history. For those practicing and teaching pastoral counseling, it offers historical insights into the field UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=303860 ER -