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Countertransference in Pastoral Care and Resources of Christian Spirituality

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2008, 11(), pp.267-293
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2008.11..267
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 30, 2008
  • Accepted : November 12, 2008

Ha, Jae Sung 1

1고신대학교

ABSTRACT

Countertransference includes counselor’s unconscious feelings, fantasies, and often exaggerated responses toward the client due to unresolved issues within the counselor. Like with transference, the presence of countertranference is an important sign of personal involvement of the counselor with the client. However, without acknowledgement of its presence or of its meanings, countertransferece may endanger the counseling relationship of trustthat facilitates process of healing. Countertransference may also explain interpersonal dynamics of pastoral relationship in ministry. It deepens pastor's mutual self-understanding in ministry and signals for professional help when it seriously threatens pastoral relationship. Christian spirituality can help the pastor illuminate the contents of countertransference and its background; it provides resources for the understanding and transcendence of the self's unresolved needs in the face of the client. Christian spirituality provides plenary religious resources for self-reflection, transformation, and selftranscendence of the pastor for the service of God’s people without threatening or compromising in the professional helping relationship.

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