Three texts continued

 Interestingly my primary supervisor while in pastoral psychoanalytic psychotherapy training was a colleague of Carrol Wise. He knew Wise and several of his students. So the tradition continued. Another student of Wise wrote the second pastoral psychoanalytic text that meant a great deal to me. This author is Charles Gerkin. Gerkin was for many years a pastoral psychoanalytic psychotherapist, seminary professor, and author. His book is entitled,The Living Human Document: Revisioning Pastoral Counseling in a Hermeneutical Mode (1984). Gerkin's book exemplifies the psychoanalytic pluralism that has occurred in both psychoanalysis and pastoral psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Gerkin takes his mentor Wise a step further from Freudian psychoanalysis, and developed pastoral psychoanalytic psychotherapy theory and practice that integrated the later theories of psychoanalysis including object relations theory and self psychology. Gerkin further writes of his own experience in personal psychoanalysis while in training to become a pastoral psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Reading his experience made me realize how closely it paralleled my own.