Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, 2003. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-154).

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Evangelical Seminary, 1984. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-62).

Typescript. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-232). Abstract: leaves 233-241. Microfilm. / Empathy is the participation of the self and the other in the feeling, communication, content of thought and motivation of the self and the other. This definition of empathy, which might be called the love of God in action, is one which I worked out by using myself and my relationships in the Boston Psychopathic Hospital as a measuring rod. A full sharing of feeling, communication, content of thought and motivation is ideal, but it is not a practical goal. I have decided to say that there is an empathic relationship when there is a free flowing of feeling without any obvious block. My method of conducting this study on the meaning and development of empathy was to use a three way point of reference of the patient, the "therapist," and myself, the empathic investigator; the data was gathered from sixteen patients, nine "therapists" and myself. This means that I am presenting three subjective points of view of twenty-six people and forty-six relationships over a period of three months from September through November 1953. I took fifteen months to get acquainted in the hospital and to work out the definition of empathy; three months were spent in intensive interview and observation. [TRUNCATED] The idea of empathy is brought out in the literature of psychology and allied fields; but it is not delineated in the empirical setting as I have done. Psychology says that we feel into or with people. Psychoanalysis emphasizes transference, counter transference and identification as if they were more meaningful in the psychoanalytic setting; I am of the opinion that they work in every day life. The growing a na dynamic patterns o f anthropology and the roles, status and prejudice of social psychology are used as tools in the task of maturing. Theological writing emphasizes fellowship, relationship, group therapy and empathy without putting them in a specific empirical setting . In p a storal counseling and psychiatry rather formal diadic and group relationships have been developed with specific procedures designed to foster empathy and growth of the individual to maturity. [TRUNCATED]

This doctoral thesis deals with the topic of Pastoral Psychology. It is a comparative study of the Psychoanalyst Karen Homey and the Father of the Church, Saint Maximus the Confessor. The central part of the thesis is a comparison of Karen Homey's psychological theory of neurosis and Saint Maximus the Confessor's anthropological understanding of the nature of human fallenness. This is preceded by a comparative study of the understanding of the potentialities of healthy human nature, or human nature as God intended it, and followed by a comparison of the therapeutic methods proposed by Karen Homey on one hand and Saint Maximus on the other. The whole study is prefaced by a historical introduction that seeks to place the American Psychoanalyst and the Father of the Church in their respective historical and intellectual context. This study closes with conclusions and an epilogue that deals with the current position of Karen Homey's psychoanalysis, and the way in which Saint Maximus the Confessor's teaching on Creation, Man and World contributes to the teaching of the Church today.

Thesis (M.T.S.)--Catholic Theological Union of Chicago, 1988. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-53).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 1989. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-120).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2005. / "May 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-90). Online version available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 1989. / Abstract. This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #028-0029. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-120).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Calvin Theological Seminary, 1998. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-74).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1995. / Includes project contract. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 129).