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Reflections for Clinical Pastoral Education Students in Psychiatric Settings
1McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, McGovern Medical School, 6431 Fannin Street, JJL 410, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. nathanscarlin@gmail.com.
Abstract:
This article focuses on Donald Capps's books on mental illness. In doing so I highlight three key insights from Capps that I have applied in my own ministry with persons with mental illness in various psychiatric hospitals. These insights, together with my own experience as a chaplain, lead to three practical lessons for clinical pastoral education students in psychiatric settings. I provide some context for my interest in mental illness and my friendship with Capps, as well as some background regarding how Capps's writings on mental illness fit with certain broader themes in his own work as a pastoral theologian. This essay is personal throughout.
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