Counseling Women: Narrative, Pastoral Approach

In this signal volume, Christie Neuger offers a new feminist paradigm for radical, effective, empowering counseling for women. She contends that pastors must take up the challenge of pastoral counseling, especially in light of the revolutionary pastoral implications of gender studies and feminist theology, as well as the continuing personal and social effects of sexism.

The most sustained and systematic account to date, Neugers model employs narrative psychotherapya short-term, contextually sensitive, and teachable counseling structure. She espouses counseling in four phases: coming to voice, gaining clarity, making choices, and staying connected. Each is masterfully sketched and illustrated by a common therapeutic problem (e.g., intimate violence, depression, aging).

Neugers work promises to aid counselors "to help women resist and transform the negative effects of a woman-unfriendly culture" and so to reclaim their stories, their strength, and their lives.

• Stand Up!: How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire
• Living Without Enemies: Being Present in the Midst of Violence
• The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
• Bull City Survivor: Standing Up to a Hard Life in a Southern City
• The Practice of Pastoral Care, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Postmodern Approach
• Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament (Knowing God Through the Old Testament Set)
• Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament
• Women Out of Order: Risking Change and Creating Care in a Multicultural World
• The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (Cambridge Companions to Religion)
• Holy Teaching: Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas