James E. Dittes, Pastoral Counseling: The Basics. Westminster / John Knox 1998.
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Referenced in: Pastoral Counseling
From the Publisher
In this invaluable resource for pastors and seminarians, Dittes offers answers to some of a minister’s most basic counseling questions and provides insight into other fundamental issues. Dittes says pastoral counseling joins other dimensions of ministry as an effort to “re-call, re-deem, re-vision life into being less like it has been and more as it is intended”.
About the Author
Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Psychology at Yale University. He is a former Executive Secretary (1959-1965) and President (1971-1972) of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. He also served as editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1966-1971).
Dittes wrote one of the first contemporary critical reviews of the empirical literature in the psychology of religion. He has contributed to studies in religious biography, including works on St. Augustine and an authoritative analysis of William James. He also has written on mainstream psychology of religion topics, including religion and prejudice and intrinsic/extrinsic religion. In addition, he has written extensively on characteristics of religious professionals and the psychological assessment and testing of ministerial candidates.
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