TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steere,David A.
TI  - Rediscovering confession: the practice of forgiveness and where it leads 
SN  - 0415997461
AV  - RC489.F67 S74 2009
U1  - 616.8914 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Forgiveness
KW  - Confession
KW  - Psychotherapy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -