Steere, David A.,  1931-2012 <br/><br/>
Rediscovering confession :  the practice of forgiveness and where it leads / 
David A. Steere. 
 - xix, 280 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Honest Confession --  The Full Confessional Experience --  Some Classical Confessions: Augustine and Patrick --  More Confessions: Tolstoy and Vonnegut --  The Trouble with Adam --  The Confessional Relationship --  Women in Confession: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kemp --  Contemporary Women Confessors: Karen Armstrong and Elaine Pagels --  The Enneagram --  The Truth of the Matter --  More Confessors: Bill Wilson and Recovery --  Predicament and Presence in Practice --  Forgiveness and Confessional Relationships --  Changing Our Mind --  The Compassionate Community. 
<br/><br/> "Rediscovering Confession is about recovering the experience of confession, in danger now of becoming a lost art. It identifies four elements present in psychotherapy and confession: a state of heightened self-awareness, a growing realization that our predicament points in some meaningful direction beyond itself, the necessity to make a relevant response to our situation, and a potential for spiritual encounter that accompanies the process. Each chapter contains a section devoted to practice, with exercises for individual contemplation and experimentation, guidelines for forming a confessional partnership, directions for conducting discussions in a study goup, and ways to organize a small confessional group."--Publisher's website. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415997461 9780415997461 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008050572 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Forgiveness.<br/>Confession<br/>Psychotherapy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC489.F67  / S74 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.8914