Pastoral psychiatry
Pastoral psychiatry deals with pastoral care in the field of psychiatry . The term pastoral psychiatry has already denoted a variety of things between “spiritual healing” and “psychiatry for theologians”. In Germany, a professorship for the subject was established for the first time in 1973 at the Ruhr University Bochum , which until 1996 was occupied by the theologian Thomas Bonhoeffer .
development
The attempt of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum in 1973, at the height of the economic miracle, to institutionalize pastoral psychiatry as a separate subject in the field of practical theology in a professorship for pastoral cooperation in psychiatric prophylaxis and rehabilitation based on the American model, soon failed in the aftermath of the first oil crisis and the subsequent shortage of funds.
literature
- C. Knight Aldrich, Carl A. Nighswonger: Pastoral Psychiatry in Practice - A Guide for Pastoral Care , Gütersloher Verlagshaus 1984, ISBN 3579045172
- Elisabeth Kovács, Gottfried Roth: Anselm Ricker and his pastoral psychiatry 1824–1902 / 03 , ISBN 3853510604