Cultivating Wholeness - by Margaret Kornfeld (Paperback)

About the Book

Commissioned by the Blanton-Peale Institute, Cultivating Wholeness is a practical, comprehensive, contemporary guide to community care and counseling. Margaret Zipse Kornfeld, a pastoral psychotherapist for almost thirty years, focuses on wholeness, the dynamics change, an inclusive understanding of spirituality, the caregiver/ counselor, and on community as not merely the context for healing but also the means by which healing happens.

Book Synopsis

Commissioned by the Blanton-Peale Institute, Cultivating Wholeness is a practical, comprehensive, contemporary guide to community care and counseling. Margaret Zipse Kornfeld, a pastoral psychotherapist for almost thirty years, focuses on wholeness, the dynamics change, an inclusive understanding of spirituality, the caregiver/ counselor, and on community as not merely the context for healing but also the means by which healing happens.

Review Quotes

"A state-of-the-art guide for all who minister today!"--Catholic Library World

"A tour de force.... Kornfeld's treatment of listening, women's needs, clergy confidentiality, unemployment, fee-taking, and the health and spirituality of the 'counselor in community' is brilliant."--Christian Century

"A wise, humane, and practical book about healing in religious communities."--Values and Visions

About the Author

Margaret Zipse Kornfeld is a pastoral psychotherapist, an American Baptist pastor, a longtime faculty member of the Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute and of Union Theological Seminary; and president-elect of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.