Sean J. Labat

Anton Boisen

Madness, Mysticism, and the Origins of Clinical Pastoral Education

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Sean J. LaBat provides a critical re-assessment of Anton Boisen's life and work. He demonstrates how the founder of clinical pastoral education and institutional chaplaincy suffered from mental illness, yet was also a visionary who pioneered patient-centered care and reconciled science and religion in his work as a chaplain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fortress Academic
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781978711570
• ISBN-10: 1978711573
• Artikelnr.: 64987451

Autorenporträt

Sean J. LaBat is a clinical staff chaplain at Central Virginia Veterans Administration Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Visit to a Little-Known Country
Chapter 2: Searching for Meaning in the Madness
Chapter 3: How Boisen Interpreted His Experience and Illness
Chapter 4: My Friends are Coming to Help Me
Chapter 5: Boisen's Productive "Retirement"
Chapter 6: The Scientific Seer