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This APSCC bibliography is a list of books chosen by members of the Executive. Each member was asked to list the three books they found most important in the field of pastoral and spiritual care and counselling. Our current concern is the interface or meeting ground between spirituality and counselling, between religion and psychotherapy and this concern is reflected in the list. | Assagioli, Robert | Transpersonal Development
(Aqueman) | | Bridge, F & Atkinson, D | Counselling in Context, Developing a Theological Framework
(Redwood Books, 2nd Edition 1998)
Criticising the Church’s unquestioning assimilation of models of secular counselling etc; sheds light on the need to listen to psychotherapy. | | Conn, Joann W | Spirituality and Personal Maturity
(NY: Paulist 1989)
A study in psychology and spirituality showing how both are integrally related to human maturity. | | Danesh, HB | The Psychology of Spirituality
(Landegg Academy 1997) | | De Mello, Anthony | Sadhana, A Way to God
(Gujarat Sahitta Prakash, Anand, India 1978) | | Dodds, Happy | Spiritual Being
(George Ronald, Oxford 2000)
A study coming out of the Baha’i tradition. | | Goodliff, P | Care in a Confused Climate, Pastoral care in Post Modern Culture
(Darton, Longman & Todd 1998)
Exploring a way of revising pastoral ministry in a rapidly changing secular society while remaining true to Christian theology. | | Halmos, Paul | The Faith of the Counsellors
(Constable 1965)
A seminal work exploring the underlying faith which informs the work of Counsellors. | | Jourard, Sidney M | The Transparent Self
(New York, Van Rostrand Rienhold) | | Jung, Carl G | Modern Man in Search of a Soul
(Routledge, Kegan Paul) | | Lambourne, RA | Community Church and Healing
(Darton, Longman & Todd 1963, re-issued by Arthur James c. 1988)
The community nature of all healing | | Lartey, Emmanuel Y | In Living Colour; an intercultural approach to pastoral care and counselling (Cassell 1997) | | Leech, Kenneth | Soul Friend
(Darton, Longman & Todd 1994)
Especially the chapter on ’direction, counselling and therapy’. | | Lynch, Gordon, ed. | Clinical Counselling in Pastoral Settings
(Routledge 1999)
A broad look at the subject ranging from philosophical and theological reflection to down to earth writing about issues like boundaries within pastoral counselling. | | May, Gerald | Care of Mind, Care of Spirit
(Harper, San Francisco 1992)
A psychiatrist explores spiritual direction | | Rowan, John | The Transpersonal, Psychology and Counselling
(Routledge) | | Stein, Samuel M, ed. | Beyond Belief: Psychotherapy and Religion
(London, Karnac 1999)
Essays in spirituality, religion and psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective. | | Symington, Neville | Emotion and Spirit: questioning the claims of psychoanalysis and religion
(Cassell 1994, reprinted Karnac 1998)
An exploration of the ways in which psychoanalysis and religion need each other. | | Thorne, Brian | Person-centred Counselling and Christian spirituality
(Whurr 1998) | | Thorne, Brian | Person-centred Counselling: Therapeutic and Spiritual Dimensions
(Whurr 1991) | | Vaughan, Frances | The Inward Arc
(New Science Library, USA) | | Way, the (supplement) | Spirituality and Psychology
(N° 69, London Way Publications 1990)
Essays in spiritual direction, counselling and psychotherapy, from a Christian perspective. | | West, William | Psychotherapy and Spirituality
(Sage 1999)
A study by the Manchester Research lecturer who is exploring the relationship of the two. | | Wilber, Ken | The Spectrum of Consciousness
(Quest Books, USA) | The second list is of another 36 books members of the Executive found helpful and important. | Aderman, Daniel | Emotional Intelligence
(Bloomsbury 1996)
The importance of attending to the emotions in personal life, in education and at work. | | Bryant, Christopher | Jung and the Christian Way
(London, Darton, Longman & Todd 1983)
A monk’s personal interpretation of Jung and his significance for Christian faith. | | Burford, Rodney | The symmetry of God
(Free Association Press 1999) | | Clebsch, William A & Jaekle, Charles R | Pastoral Care in Historical Perspective
(Harper & Row 1964, since reprinted)
Looking at the different stances of pastoral care through the ages with exhibits. | | Clement, Oliver | The Roots of Christian Mysticism
(New City 1993)
What the early Christian fathers had to teach about spirituality. | | Conn, Walter | The Desiring Self
(Paulist Press 1998)
Rooting pastoral counselling and spiritual direction on self-transcendence. | | Cooper, Howard, ed. | Soul searching: Studies in Judaism and Psychotherapy
(SCM 1998)
Explores Jewish faith and culture from a variety of therapeutic perspectives. | | Crabb, Larry | Connecting
(Word 1997) | | Crabb, Larry | The Safest Place on Earth
(Word 1999) | | Draudis, Claire Burke | Counselling Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
(Counselling in Practice Series 1992 - new edition)
Overview, definitions, research, guidelines and considerations when working with abused clients | | Erikson, Erik | Childhood and Society
(Penguin 1965)
Erikson introduces his eight stages of human development | | Fauteux, Kevin | The Recovery of Self
(Paulist Press 1994)
Regression and Redemption in Religious Experience. | | Graham, Helen | The Magic Shop, Imagination in Self-Healing
(Rider 1992)
The mind-body relationship. Includes exercises in guided imagery | | Hatcher, William S | The dynamics of authentic morality
(Baha’i Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois 1998) | | Hazell, Jeremy, ed. | Personal Relations Theory, the collected papers of HJS Guntrip
(Jason Aronson 1994)
Tracing the development of the URC Minister and psychotherapist’s thought on object relations theory. | | Hurding, Roger | The Bible and Counselling, an introduction to the relationship between the Bible and Christian Counselling
(Hodder & Stoughton 1992)
The Pastoral tradition within the wider functions of the Christian Church; distinctions drawn between spiritual direction and healing and counselling, pitfalls and benefits. | | Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat | Counselling and Therapy, the spiritual dimension
(Souvenir Press, London) | | Jacobs, Michael, ed. | Faith or Fear? A reader in pastoral care and counselling
(Darton, Longman & Todd 1987)
Short extracts from a wide range of writers in psychotherapy and pastoral theology. | | Jacobs, Michael, ed. | The Care Guide
(Cassell 1995)
1,000 word articles on different aspects of social and pastoral care. | | Jacobs, Michael, ed. | Towards the Fullness of Christ, Pastoral Care and Christian Maturity
(Darton, Longman & Todd 1987)
A study of current writing about faith development | | Jones, James | Contemporary psychoanalysis and religion
(Yale University Press 1991)
Transference and transcendence | | Lake, Frank | In the Spirit of Truth
(Darton, Longman & Todd 1991)
Christian counsel; an edited edition of his writings. | | Leary, Stanley | In the Image of God
(Yale University Press 1988)
A psychoanalytic view. | | Long, Anne | Listening
(Darton, Longman & Todd, Daybreak 1990)
Training people in the art of listening. | | McLean, JA | Under the Divine Lake Tree, Essays and Reflections
(George Ronald, Oxford 1999)
A study out of the Baha’i tradition. | | McLeod, John | Narrative & Psychotherapy
(Sage 1987)
Exploration of the concept of self in story telling against a changing social milieu. | | Proctor, Brigid | Group Supervision
(Sage 2000)
’Hands on’ help on supervising a group of Counsellors | | Rizzuto, Ana-Maria | The birth of the Living God: a Psychoanalytic Study
(Chicago UCP 1979)
A study of the origin, development and use of God images. | | Ronald, George | Unlocking the gate of the heart
(Lasse Thoresen 1998) | | Shorter, Bani | Susceptible to the Sacred: the psychological experience of ritual
(Routledge 1996)
A Jungian analyst examines spirituality and its expressions in contemporary life. | | Silf, Margaret | Taste and See
(Darton, Longman & Todd 1999) | | Silf, Margaret | Landmarks
(Darton, Longman & Todd 1998) | | Walsh, Roger &
Vaughan, Frances, eds | Paths beyond Ego, the transpersonal vision
Vaughan, Frances, eds. (Tarcher & Putnam, NY) | | Washburn, Michael | The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: a transpersonal theory of human development
(State University of New York Press) | | Wilber, Ken | The Atman Project
(Quest Books, USA) | | Woodman, Marion | The Pregnant Virgin; psychological transformation
(Inner City Books, Canada) | Readers might like to improve our list by commenting on the books here or by suggesting other books. We would need a 50-word summary of what any book was about and what the reader thought of it. Equally if anyone has a comment on any book already on the list we would be glad to hear of it, perhaps with any amendments of details the reader thinks we should include. Please send to APSCC’s Divisional Administrator at BACP, BACP House, 15 St. John’s Business Park, Lutterworth, LE17 4HB. Reviews of books are regularly included in the division’s newsletter, ’Reflections’. Anyone who would like to review a book should apply for guidelines, which are available from the Newsletter Editor, BACP, BACP House, 15 St. John’s Business Park, Lutterworth, LE17 4HB. |
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