A Critical Appraisal of Pastoral Counseling

BERNARD L. PACELLAAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 123, Number 6

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.6.646

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The techniques used by pastoral counselors bear a similarity to those used by the psychiatrist. But if the pastoral counselor undertakes an interpretive or analytic type of therapy, he steps out of his role as pastor in relation to the patient. The author hopes that pastoral counseling will remain more religion-oriented than psychologically oriented, but he also hopes that all clergymen will be offered courses in the seminary aimed at giving them adequate orientation in the fields of mental development and mental health.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 123 • Number 6 • December 1966

Pages: 646 - 651

PubMed: 5927586

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Published in print: December 1966

Published online: 1 April 2006

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BERNARD L. PACELLA

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.

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A Critical Appraisal of Pastoral Counseling

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