Abstract:
This paper discusses issues related to the concept and practice of pastoral
care, with contributions from Jungian analysis for Christian guidance and
counseling, as well as studies the links between Jungian therapy and pastoral
care. To accomplish this, it is based on the assertion that the Christian
counseling and pastoral care are linked to the ministries of the church, in the
sense of diakonia, to the services that involve helping people and groups,
because it offers them the prospect of faith and revelation. It develops the idea
that analytical psychology can offer a suitable method for Christian needs,
considering that the Jungian approach enables both the transformation and
integration of psychic contents, as well as taking on the path of self-knowledge,
and both of these results also point to the benefits of spiritual and religious
guidance, showing that this is the main meeting of and relationship between
Jungian analysis, pastoral care, and religion itself. In developing these
perspectives religious and symbolic dimensions of the psyche and the theology
of the cross as vertices for effective healing of the soul were explored.
