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Biblical stories for psychotherapy and counseling : a sourcebook /
"This sourcebook applies the stories from the Hebrew Bible to current psychological issues. From the familiar to the obscure, these stories can help us understand self-esteem, loyalty and obligations, decision making, temptation, anger, morality, various disorders, family dynamics, support syst...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Haworth Pastoral Press,
Ã2004.
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| Colección: | Haworth religion and mental health.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Greek bias in medicine
- The Greek bias in psychology and psychiatry
- Biblical stories
- Self-esteem: strengths, sources, disabilities, and healing. The basis of self-image : Adam and Narcissus
- Definitions of strength : David and Goliath
- Dealing with special gifts : Samson and Delilah
- The source of health : Elisha and Naaman
- The foundation of self-esteem : Saul
- The courage to emigrate : Abraham.
- Obligations and loyalty to self and others. Assuming responsibility for others : Jonah
- Assuming responsibility for self : Lot's Wife
- Singing one's own song : Miriam
- Completing another's vision : Joshua and Moses
- Friendship and love : David and Jonathan
- Saving one's people: Esther
- Making difficult decisions. Weighing abilities : Rebecca and her two sons
- Focusing on one's main aim : Sarah and Hagar
- Distinguishing motivations : Michal, David, and Saul
- Two views of wisdom : Solomon and the two mothers
- Two types of giving : Cain and Abel.
- Commandments, oaths, parables, and temptations. Dealing with commandments : Abraham and Isaac
- Dealing with oaths : Jephtha and his daughter
- Communicating through parables : Nathan and David
- Dealing with temptations : Adam and Eve
- Rejecting temptations : Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
- Good and bad anger. Confronting immorality : Phinehas
- Taking revenge : Simeon and Levi
- Misplaced mercy, misplaced violence : King Saul
- Protecting the innocent : Moses.
- Escaping cynicism : Hezekiah versus Rabshakeh
- Various disorders. Overcoming eating disorders : Adam and Eve versus Erysichthon
- Drunkenness and disrespect : Noah
- Work versus workaholism : Adam
- Unrealistically heavy burdens : Cain
- Hoarding or enjoying : Manna.
- Overcoming family problems. Forgiving deceit : Rachel and Jacob
- Covering a family problem : Achan
- Overcoming a bad start : David and Bathsheba
- Wise mate selection : Rebecca, Isaac and Eliezer
- Kindness for kindness : Boaz and Ruth
- Parental blessings, permission, and support. Being careful with a blessing : Isaac and his sons
- Spreading the blessing around : Joseph and his brothers
- Supporting one's son : Hannah and Samuel
- Reciprocity between generations : Naomi and Ruth.
- Controlling one's daughter : Lot
- Good and bad development. Amoral intellectualism : Balaam
- Totalitarian utopianism : the tower of Babel
- Acquiring wisdom : Solomon
- Undone by ambition : Jereboam
- Using others : Amnon
- Recovery from misfortune, weariness, loss, and disability. Dealing with disaster : Jeremiah
- Feeling rejected : the curser
- Aging : Ecclesiastes
- The experience of almost-loss : Sarah
- Dealing with disability: Moses and Aaron
- Knowing that life has meaning : the fugitive.
- Suicide prevention. Recovering from weariness : Elijah
- Feeling overwhelmed : Moses
- Friends in need : Job
- Abandonment : David
- Protected regression : Jonah versus Narcissus
- Epilogue : Freud, Oedipus, and the Hebrew Bible.