After You!: Dialogical Ethics and the Pastoral Counselling Process

by R Burggraeve (Editor), J Corveleyn (Editor), A Liegois (Editor), M Riemslagh (Editor)

Overview

The subject of this book is pastoral counseling as a particular form of pastoral care in the Christian context. Central in the reflection stays the counseling process as dialogue and ethical event, inspirend by thinkers as Levinas, Buber, Honneth, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Nagy, and others. The first part provides building blocks for an interdisciplinary reflection on different forms and fields of counseling as a qualitative event of conversation. The views on the event of dialogue are illustrated on the basis of different forms and fields of conversation that come from both the pastoral as well as the therapeutic and guidance setting. Contributors to the first part are: Sheila Mc Namee, Lisbeth Lipari, Marie-Cecile Bertau, Peter Rober, Vangie Bergum, Darcia Narvaez. The second part focuses on the pastoral counselling as 'event of conversation' whereby our 'dialogical human condition' takes shape in its own manner. Two seemingly contradictory characteristics are linked with each other, namely asymmetry and reciprocity, or better reciprocity in a context of ethical asymmetry, with special attention for the different aspects of responsibility, recognition, power, and visible or hidden forms of violence. The different contributors (Marina Riemslagh, Carrie Doehring, Annelies van Heijst, Axel Liegeois, Annemie Dillen, Roger Burggraeve) indicate stepstones for a pastoral relationship without tyranny. Kenneth and Mary Gergen offer a critical postscriptum on the 'missing voices' to make possible a 'fully relational ethic' in (pastoral) care-giving and counselling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789042928985
Publisher:	Peeters Publishing
Publication date:	03/12/2013
Series:	Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium , #258
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: "After You" and the Asymmetric Reciprocity of Pastoral Counselling Axel Liégeois Roger Burggraeve Marina Riemslagh Jozef Corveleyn (Leuven) ix

Part I Dialogue and Ethics as Preconditions for Pastoral Counselling

The Difference of Dialogue: Toward a Relational Ethic Sheila McNamee (Durham, NH) 3

The Vocation of Listening: The Other Side of Dialogue Lisbeth Lipari (Granville, OH) 15

Voices of Others unto the Self, Voices of Others in the Self: Polyphony as Means and Resource for Constructing and Recon- structing Social Reality Marie-Cécile Bertau (München) 37

The Client's "No": The Challenge of Creating Dialogical Space for Both Partners in Marital Therapy Peter Rober (Leuven) 67

Quickening Practice: The Ethical Space of Action Vangie Bergum (Edmonton Alberta, Can) 87

The Individual, Relational and Social Neurobiological Development of Morality Darcia Narvaez (Notre Dame, IN) 109

Part II The Pastoral Counselling Process as Ethical Event

Asymmetric Reciprocity in Pastoral Dialogue: Reflections on Effective Pastoral Counselling Inspired by the Thought of Levinas and Buber Marina Riemslagh (Leuven) 139

The Practice of Relational-Ethical Pastoral Care: An Intercultural Approach Carrie Doehring (Denver, CO) 159

Care for Recognition in Pastoral Counselling Annelies Van Heust (Tilburg) 183

Asymmetry and Power in Pastoral Counselling: The Need for Ethical Attitudes Axel Liégeois (Leuven) 201

Doing Justice in Primary Relationships: Intersubjectivity, Social Identity and Power in Pastoral Counselling, in Dialogue with the Thought of Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy Annemie Dillen (Leuven) 217

From 'Good Morning' to the Responsibility for the Responsibility of the Other: A Levinasian Perspective on Pastoral Conversation as Ethical Event Roger Burggraeve (Leuven) 233

Epilogue

Relational Ethics and Missing Voices Kenneth J. Gergen Mary M. Gergen (Chagrin Falls, OH) 269

List of Contributors 281

Index of Names 285

Index of Subjects 293