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

In this book, Sean J. LaBat provides a critical re-assessment of Anton Boisen's life and work. He demonstrates how the founder of clinical pastoral education and institutional chaplaincy suffered from mental illness, yet was also a visionary who pioneered patient-centered care and reconciled science and religion in his work as a chaplain.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Visit to a Little-Known Country
Chapter 2: Searching for Meaning in the Madness
Chapter 3: How Boisen Interpreted His Experience and Illness
Chapter 4: My Friends are Coming to Help Me
Chapter 5: Boisen's Productive "Retirement"
Chapter 6: The Scientific Seer

About the author

By Sean J. LaBat

Summary

In this book, Sean J. LaBat provides a critical re-assessment of Anton Boisen's life and work. He demonstrates how the founder of clinical pastoral education and institutional chaplaincy suffered from mental illness, yet was also a visionary who pioneered patient-centered care and reconciled science and religion in his work as a chaplain.

Product details

• Authors: Sean J Labat, Sean J. LaBat
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2022
• EAN: 9781978711570
• ISBN: 978-1-978711-57-0
• No. of pages: 190
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, Christianity, History of Religion, Religious ethics, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Christian social thought & activity