Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Philadelphia : Westminster Press, c1987.
Description
Wayne Oates, one of America's leading pastoral counselors, draws on psychological insights to describe in everyday language several common personality disorders that make human interaction so difficult. He examines the reasons why individuals develop as they do and illuminates how personality disorders can result in destructive relgious behavior. Proposing pastoral care approaches that combine understanding with empathy and firmness, Oates discusses how the resources of the Christian faith can unmask these disorders so the real person can emerge. He concludes with a sixfold agenda for the total ministry of the church to prevent, affect, and deal with personality disorders.
Subjects
LCC
BV4461.O17 1987
Physical description
139 p.; 23 cm
ISBN
0664240283 / 9780664240288
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