Finding Language for What Matters Most: Hosting Conversations about Sexuality in Pastoral Counseling

This article draws from intertwined Gospel accounts, in Luke 8 and elsewhere, of Jesus healing a hemorrhaging woman and a 12-year-old girl presumed dead, building on Capps's () claim that their physical symptoms manifested intense unconscious anxieties resulting from untenable sexual expectatio...

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Published in:Pastoral psychology
Main Author: Dykstra, Robert C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science Business Media B. V. 2015
In: Pastoral psychology
RelBib Classification:HC New Testament
NBE Anthropology
NCF Sexual ethics
RG Pastoral care
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Hemorrhaging woman
B Human Sexuality
B Sexual anxiety and marginalization
B Luke 8
B Somatic symptom disorder
B Conversation
B Somatoform disorders
B Jesus' healing ministry
B LANGUAGE & languages
B Donald Capps
B Mark Vonnegut
B Pastoral Counseling
B Jairus's daughter
B Loneliness
B C. A. Tripp
B Sexual counseling
B Symptoms
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Summary:This article draws from intertwined Gospel accounts, in Luke 8 and elsewhere, of Jesus healing a hemorrhaging woman and a 12-year-old girl presumed dead, building on Capps's () claim that their physical symptoms manifested intense unconscious anxieties resulting from untenable sexual expectations of their culture. In these cases, healing derives from their capacity to believe in someone who has faith in them (Capps , p. 124). The article encourages contemporary pastoral counselors to attend not only with strenuous professional ethicality but also with subversive moral generosity to minute differences among individuals marginalized due to sexual yearnings perceived to deviate from a presumed societal norm.
ISSN:1573-6679
Contains:Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11089-015-0656-2