Integration of Faith and Psychology

Proposes an understanding of the integration of faith and psychology as a matter of personal integrity, i.e., as the development and embrace of a coherent vocational narrative as a Christian and a psychotherapist. Lectures will explore a character-based understanding of the therapist’s role and vocation, then present a model of relational peacemaking based on the Beatitudes of Jesus. With peacemaking as the controlling motif, lectures will then examine the related “clinical virtues” of hope, humility, and compassion, as well as an understanding of self-care based on a re-appropriation of the spiritual discipline of Sabbath. Each of the virtues will be discussed from theological, biblical, and psychological perspectives, with an emphasis on their relevance to a clinical vocation.