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A Study on the Henri J. M. Nouwen’s Spirituality and therapeutic Counseling

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2008, 11(), pp.47-91
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2008.11..47
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 30, 2008
  • Accepted : November 12, 2008

ByunYoungIn 1

1동서대학교

ABSTRACT

Today’s people have relationship as a nuclear humanity each other. There are many kinds of wounds and broken hearts in their mind. These persons’ solitude and wound should be healed and recovered in relationship with God. We acknowledge that people should have a therapeutic counseling for spiritual recovery. This article is to investigate a therapeutic counseling through the Henri J. M. Nouwen's life, practice, spirituality and his books. Henri J. M. Nouwen is famous for the writer of over 50 spiritual books and that of “wounded healer”. According to his opinion, prayer and practice of spirituality is worthy and desirable for a therapeutic counseling. He thinks that prayer, especially contemplation prayer, is the source which can give direction and power in life: a therapeutic counseling should be with prayer to correspond with God’s intention. Because Nouwen’s spirituality provides us with a balance between theory and practice, it can become a practical guidance to clients in progress of healing their wound. In this article we can find how to apply Nouwen's spirituality to the occasion of a therapeutic counseling. This article shows Nouwen’s life, his books as well as his academical viewpoint and spirituality. Additionally, this article deals with how to apply a therapeutic counseling with his viewpoint. Furthermore, a therapeutic counselor’s attitude and a therapeutic method of counseling are written.

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