Conceptual analysis proposes a relational integration framework for spiritual care and psychoanalysis, highlighting embodied and intercultural commitments for trauma and suffering.
Key Points
To develop an ethical and hermeneutical framework that bridges psychoanalysis and spiritual care to address multifaceted suffering in a decolonial era.
Traced historical developments in pastoral and practical theology across clinical pastoral education, hermeneutics, and decolonial critiques.
Synthesized major theoretical shifts in psychoanalysis, including object relations, relational-intersubjective theories, and liberationist perspectives.
Identified conceptual intersections between psychoanalytic theory and pastoral care that overcome clinical reductionism and theological dogmatism.
Established embodied, hermeneutical, developmental, and intercultural commitments to guide interdisciplinary healing, justice, and clinical witness.