RT Article
T1 The Willie Lomans of a Market Society: Addressing Political-Economic Sources of Suffering in Pastoral Counseling
JF Journal of pastoral care & counseling
VO 69
IS 2
SP 102
OP 112
A1 LaMothe, Ryan 1955-
LA English
PB Sage Publishing
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1809850789
AB This article focuses on the culture of state-corporate capitalism as a source of psychological suffering for some people who seek the aid of pastoral counselors. An underlying premise of this article and, more particularly, the work of pastoral counseling comes from Frantz Fanon’s view that the aims of psychotherapy are (a) ‘to ‘consciousnessize’ [the patient’s] unconscious, to no longer be tempted by a hallucinatory lactification’, and (b) ‘to enable [the patient] to choose an action with respect to the real source of the conflict, i.e., the social structure’. An aim of pastoral counseling, then, is to facilitate recognition of a person’s sources of suffering so that s/he can decide how to respond. By contrast, it is argued that a pastoral counselor, in leaving a client unaware that his/her suffering is partially the result of a capitalistic culture, fosters hermeneutical mystification, and the patient is not able to choose an action directed toward a major source of his/her depression.
K1 Suffering
K1 Pastoral Counseling
K1 market society
K1 Internalization
K1 Dissociation
K1 Capitalism
DO 10.1177/1542305015586774