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Anton Boisen
Madness, Mysticism, and the Origins of Clinical Pastoral Education
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2021
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In Anton Boisen: Madness, Mysticism, and the Origins of Clinical Pastoral Education, Sean J. LaBat provides a critical re-assessment of Anton Boisen’s life and work. Based in thorough archival research, LaBat argues that Boisen, who suffered from intermittent severe mental illness, was a creative visionary, a mystic who re-imagined pastoral care and envisioned possibilities for the institutionalized other than shame and stigma. He shows how Boisen elucidated new possibilities in patient-centered health care, community care for the mentally ill, and reconciliation and dialogue between religion and science. Boisen explored the borderland of madness and mysticism, illness and inspiration, and practiced an interdisciplinary approach to his craft that is surprisingly modern and more relevant to the practice of medicine and the practice of religion than ever before.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-1155-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-1156-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
182
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 1 Visit to a Little-Known Country No access Pages 11 - 38
Chapter 2 Searching for Meaning in the Madness No access Pages 39 - 66
Chapter 3 How Boisen Interpreted His Experience and Illness No access Pages 67 - 82
Chapter 4 My Friends Are Coming to Help Me No access Pages 83 - 112
