Healing Souls
Author | : Eric G. Swedin |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2003-09-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 0252028643 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780252028649 |
Rating | : 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Swedin portrays the rise of professional organizations such as the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists, as well as the importance of Allen E. Bergin, first director of the BYU Institute for Studies in Values and Human Behavior. Bergin and others paved the way for the LDS adoption of professional psychotherapy as an essential element of their "cure of souls."" "Important chapters take up LDS psychopathology, feminist dissent, LDS philosophies of sexuality, and the rejection of mainstream psychotherapy's selfist psychology on the basis of theological doctrines of family salvation, externalism, and the "natural man.""