Understanding Male Homosexuality: Developmental Recapitulation in A Christian Perspective

1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-173
Author(s):  
John R. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Male Homosexuality ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Male Clients ◽  
Pattern Dynamics ◽  
Family Pattern ◽  
Christian Perspective ◽  
Christian Counselors ◽  
Multiple Therapy

Current attitudes and developments in society and the Christian community place more responsibility on Christian counselors and psychotherapists to be aware of biblical wisdom and scientific knowledge in working with homosexually oriented clients. Several etiological explanations are reviewed; those relating to family pattern dynamics appear promising and are related to biblical teachings regarding marriage and the familly. The concept of developmental recapitulation as a means of guiding therapy is discussed and related to a mode of multiple therapy with male clients having homosexual concerns.

Child Sexual Trauma, Dissociation, and the Soul: A Christian Psychology Conceptualization

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-214
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Badgett
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Trauma ◽  
Adult Survivors ◽  
Stress Disorders ◽  
Christian Perspective ◽  
Therapeutic Outcomes ◽  
Christian Counselors ◽  
Healing Power ◽  
Triune God ◽  
Traumatic Stress Disorders ◽  
Chronic Childhood

Over the past 30 years, the field of knowledge and insight into the phenomenon of structural or pathological dissociation has grown immensely. Recent findings have shed light on the etiology of complex traumatic stress disorders (CTSDs) like dissociative identity disorder (DID) and the intimate connection between chronic childhood sexual trauma and the persistent barriers to psychotherapeutic remediation in adult survivors. Modern scientific and theoretical advances notwithstanding, Christian counselors and pastors who counsel may benefit from a conceptualization of severe dissociative disorders, their treatment, and therapeutic outcomes that entails a thoroughgoing Christian perspective. This integrative task requires a broad survey of the pertinent psychological literature in the light of the Bible’s teaching on interpersonal suffering, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the healing power of the triune God.

Christian Psychotherapy and the Culture of Professionalism

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk E. Farnsworth
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Christian Counseling ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Educational Preparation ◽  
Mental Health Profession ◽  
Technical Content ◽  
Christian Counselors ◽  
Professional Contexts

The idea of uniquely Christian counseling or psychotherapy is presented as being composed of three parts: theoretical and technical content, educational context, and professional context. The focus is on the latter two –- the context of the educational preparation of the practitioner, and the context within which he or she conducts a professional practice. The culture of professionalism is introduced as a major factor in the secularization of “Christian counseling,” and the educational and professional contexts are called into question by the fundamental issue of the opposition of the lordship of Jesus Christ to the lordship of professionalism, or the “powers and principalities.” It is concluded that Christian counselors, Christian graduate counseling programs, and Christian counseling centers must (a) liberate themselves from the sovereignty of the mental health profession, and (b) subordinate themselves to the lordship of Jesus Christ through accountability to the Christian community.

Magnus Hirschfeld’s Onnagata

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Herrn
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Male Homosexuality ◽  
Female Impersonators ◽  
Japanese Female ◽  
Ideological Differences ◽  
Sexual Science ◽  
Magnus Hirschfeld ◽  
Important Field

This chapter examines the circulation of sexual scientific knowledge between Germany and Japan by focusing on onnagata (Japanese “female impersonators”), which was included by Magnus Hirschfeld as cultural figures in his so-called Wall of Sexual Transitions. Hirschfeld created the Wall of Sexual Transitions to illustrate his “theory of sexual transitions” for the 1913 international Physicians' Congress in London. The chapter first provides an overview of the beginnings of the homosexual movement in Germany and the controversies it engendered, highlighting the important role played by the first reception of the traditions of Japanese samurai and male homosexuality in Japanese theater. It then considers Hirschfeld's idea of transvestitism and his 1931 visit to Japan, and how his reinterpretation of the onnagata influenced his own conception of transvestitism. It also shows how sexual ethnography emerged as an important field of sexual science that served to delineate ideological differences between European scientists and activists.

Toward a Global History of Sexual Science: Movements, Networks, and Deployments

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Fuechtner ◽  
Douglas E. Haynes ◽  
Ryan M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Female Orgasm ◽  
Male Homosexuality ◽  
Global History ◽  
Postwar Japan ◽  
Sexual Science ◽  
Magnus Hirschfeld ◽  
History Of

This book examines the various circuits, nodes, and modes that enabled sexual scientific knowledge to spread worldwide. It shows how various actors such as Sueo Iwaya, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Swami Shivananda engaged with sexual science through their writings, as well as sexual science's relationship to modernity. The book suggests that European sexual science was constituted on the basis of conceptions of Others considered outside of “modernity” and that actors outside of Europe contributed to a globalizing sexual science through “unruly appropriations” of the field's emergent ideas. It also discusses the ways that ideas of sexual science circulated multidirectionally through travel, intellectual exchange, and internationally produced and disseminated publications. Essays written by historians, historians of science, anthropologists, and humanities scholars cover topics ranging from male homosexuality and female prostitution to the secularization of Christian marriage, popular sexology in early postwar Japan, the science of sexual difference, and female orgasm.

Defining the Competence of Psychologists with a View to Public Accountability *

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ype H. Poortinga ◽  
Ingrid Lunt
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
The Body ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Rigorous Evaluation ◽  
Judicial Proceedings ◽  
Psychological Knowledge

In national codes of ethics the practice of psychology is presented as rooted in scientific knowledge, professional skills, and experience. However, it is not self-evident that the body of scientific knowledge in psychology provides an adequate basis for current professional practice. Professional training and experience are seen as necessary for the application of psychological knowledge, but they appear insufficient to defend the soundness of one's practices when challenged in judicial proceedings of a kind that may be faced by psychologists in the European Union in the not too distant future. In seeking to define the basis for the professional competence of psychologists, this article recommends taking a position of modesty concerning the scope and effectiveness of psychological interventions. In many circumstances, psychologists can only provide partial advice, narrowing down the range of possible courses of action more by eliminating unpromising ones than by pointing out the most correct or most favorable one. By emphasizing rigorous evaluation, the profession should gain in accountability and, in the long term, in respectability.

Family Therapy and Scientific Knowledge: A Loyalty Conflict?

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 467-469
Author(s):  
Clifford I. Notarius
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Scientific Knowledge
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