Download e-book for iPad: Prayer in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Exploring a Hidden by Peter Madsen Gubi,Brian Thorne

'Peter Gubi's publication, the fruit of either his personal large learn and a close research of the on hand literature, explores intensive the best way prayer is, and will be, utilized in counselling and psychotherapy.

This ebook would offer very good fabric for a gaggle of counsellors to proportion and contemplate. Gubi's booklet is a good advisor to an individual able to heavily discover those issues.'

- Thresholds

'... [A] problem to all therapists to envision their very own presuppositions and prejudices and to find, in so doing, an more desirable flexibility with out wasting their integrity. it isn't urged interpreting for these settled of their methods or unwilling to recognize their very own religious yearnings or their loss of braveness within the face of another's spirituality. Prayer could be a tricky self-discipline and Peter Gubi demonstrates that its incorporation into the paintings of the therapist calls for no little braveness and a willingness to discover afresh what constitutes moral behaviour instead of following the rule of thumb book.'

- from the foreword by way of Brian Thorne, Professor Emeritus, college of East Anglia, and Honorary Lay Canon, Norwich Cathedral

Within mainstream counselling and psychotherapy there's turning out to be curiosity within the non secular measurement of counselling. Prayer is on the centre of so much spirituality and prayer is necessary to many people's mental well-being.

Peter Madsen Gubi argues that philosophically, all counselling may be considered as prayer, relatively whilst operating at relational intensity; that prayer performs a big half in protecting many mainstream counsellors' healthiness and, with warning and regarded moral know-how, prayer will be built-in ethically into counselling whilst operating with humans of religion. using prayer in counselling isn't the antithesis of counselling as a few have argued, yet may be pointed out with many authorised healing practices.

Grounded in his doctoral examine between mainstream counsellors whose paintings contains prayer, this ebook encourages counselling and psychotherapy practitioners, and people with an curiosity within the welfare of others, to think twice the moral position of prayer in counselling.