Author: Terry D. Cooper
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630876232
Size: 22.42 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Even under the best circumstances in life, we all suffer psychological injuries to our self. These injuries from others can range from passive hurtful comments to intentional abusive assaults. The end result is that our sense of being a cohesive and secure self is threatened. We may begin to experience degrees of vulnerability and self-doubts, or of rage and desire for revenge. We may even feel as if we were "falling apart." In all cases these self-injuries chip away at our self-cohesion and self-esteem. Grace for the Injured Self helps us to better understand the significance of these injuries to our self, as well as how these injuries can be healed through the self psychology approach of Heinz Kohut. Throughout its pages, this book emphasizes the empathic presence of another as a source of grace. Empathy is the most powerful means by which the self is reassured, strengthened, and ultimately restored. It is this empathic responsiveness of others that holds our self together and helps us daily maintain our self-cohesion and self-esteem. The self psychology perspective of Heinz Kohut, who many consider the most significant psychoanalyst since Sigmund Freud, is made available here as a primary means by which clergy and other helping professionals can provide a healing context for the restoration of injured selves.
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Author: Susannah Cornwall
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137349018
Size: 57.57 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Intersex bodies have been figured as troubling by doctors, parents, religious institutions and society at large. In this book, scholars draw on constructive and pastoral theologies, biblical studies, and sociology, suggesting intersex's capacity to 'trouble' is positive, challenging unquestioned norms and assumptions in religion and beyond.
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Author: William HUNTINGTON (S.S.)
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Languages : en
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Author: Julia Kavanagh
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Size: 15.69 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Languages : en
Pages : 1404
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Author: William George Ward
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Size: 36.14 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Author: DEVOTIONS.
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Size: 63.82 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Author: Jesus Christ
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Author: Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances)
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Author: Francis Xavier Weninger
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Size: 12.30 MB
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Category : Catechetics
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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