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Clinical Chaplaincy
Principles & Practice
David Roth
PUBLISHING 1 SEPTEMBER 2026
Clinical chaplaincy is about more than a role or a credential. It is a disciplined way of attending to persons and systems facing crisis, distress, loss, grief, or perplexity—observant, relational, interpretive, accountable, and appropriately active.
In this concise guide, David Roth brings psychodynamic thought, affective neuroscience, group relations, a new understanding of religion and spirituality, and the Right Resource Model into a practical framework for chaplains, those who train them, and institutional leaders seeking the right resource at the right place at the right time.
CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING TITLES
The Poisoning of Eros
Raymond J. Lawrence
Reissued by Verbum Icon ·
Online ordering coming soon
Raymond J. Lawrence, Jr. traces the deep historical conflict between a largely sex-affirming ancient Hebraic tradition and the body-suspicious inheritance of Greco-Roman philosophy. He shows how that conflict shaped Christian sexual teaching and continues to influence the ways we experience desire, shame, intimacy, and moral responsibility today.
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This Verbum Icon reissue includes a new chapter-by-chapter study guide and points toward a more embodied, reciprocal, and life-affirming sexual ethic.
Vision from a Little Known Country
Edited by Glenn H. Asquith, Jr.
Returning to print
Forthcoming from Verbum Icon
Anton T. Boisen transformed pastoral care and the field of chaplaincy by approaching persons in crisis as living human documents. This landmark reader gathers some of Boisen’s most important shorter writings alongside contributions by Henri Nouwen, Seward Hiltner, Fred Eastman, Paul Pruyser, and others.
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Long unavailable, this classic collection restores a foundational voice of clinical chaplaincy for students, practitioners, educators, and scholars.
The Unabridged Freud–Pfister Letters
Translation by Mark Solms
Introduction by Pamela Cooper-White
Forthcoming from Verbum Icon
For thirty years, Sigmund Freud and Swiss pastor Oskar Pfister sustained one of the most unlikely friendships in the history of psychoanalysis. Their correspondence brings faith and unbelief, analysis and pastoral care, intellectual disagreement and enduring affection into searching conversation.
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This unabridged English edition, definitively translated by Mark Solms, includes more than eighty letters unavailable in the earlier English collection, restoring the full scope of a remarkable friendship and an important early dialogue between psychoanalysis and the care of souls.
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