Anton Boisen: Madness, Mysticism, and the Origins of Clinical Pastoral Education

Sean J. LaBat

doi:10.5771/9781978711563

Summary

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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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright Year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1155-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1156-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 182
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. 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
Chapter 5 Boisen’s Productive “Retirement” No access Pages 113 - 144
Chapter 6 The Scientific Seer No access Pages 145 - 170
Bibliography No access Pages 171 - 176
Credits No access Pages 177 - 178
Index No access Pages 179 - 180
About the Author No access Pages 181 - 182