| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Presence in Pastoral Care and Counselling | p. 11 |
| Presence as Grace and as Availability: The Contribution of Gabriel Marcel | p. 13 |
| Engagement with Life: Participation | |
| Presence as a Grace | |
| Presence as Availability | |
| Availability as Openness | |
| Availability as Fidelity | |
| Availability as Belonging | |
| A Flaw in the Notion of Availability? | |
| Presence as I-Thou Relation and as Confirmation: The Contribution of Martin Buber | p. 31 |
| The I-Thou Relation | |
| I and Thou | |
| Distance and Relation | |
| Objections to I and Thou | |
| Becoming Aware: The Start of Dialogue | |
| Observing, Looking On, and Becoming Aware | |
| Responsibility | |
| Confirming the Other | |
| Inclusion | |
| Confirmation as a Step Beyond Acceptance | |
| The Moral Context of Confirmation | |
| Pastoral Availability: The Foundation of Care | p. 51 |
| Compassionate Availability as Foundational in Pastoral Care and Counselling | |
| The Biblical Understanding of Compassion | |
| Availability, Tenderness and Biblical Compassion | |
| Belonging and Substitution as Foundational in Pastoral Care and Counselling | |
| Israel's Experience of Belonging | |
| Covenant and Substitution | |
| Substitution: A Case Study | |
| Covenant Versus Contract | |
| Substitution, Contract and the Covenant of Care | |
| Mutuality in the Covenant of Care | |
| Jesus and Belonging to His Family | |
| Before Skills and Techniques There is Availability | |
| Conclusion | |
| Pastoral Confirmation I: Integration in the Community of the Self | p. 79 |
| Counselling and the Language of the Heart | |
| Hobson's Notion of a 'Feeling-Language' | |
| The Language of Feeling in the Psalms of Lament | |
| A Feeling-Language and the Polar Self | |
| Confirmation and Reclaiming Split-Off Selves | |
| Self-Deception and Disavowal of Selves | |
| The Self as a Community | |
| Confirmation as the Process of Reclaiming Isolated Selves | |
| A Biblical Game of Confirmation: God and Jonah | |
| Integration through a Dialogue in the Community of the Self | |
| Egoistic Introspection or Growth in Holiness? | |
| Conclusion | |
| Pastoral Confirmation II: The Role of Conscience | p. 107 |
| The Ethical Dimension in Confirmation | |
| Existential Guilt, Conscience and Reconciliation | |
| Two Approaches to Establishing the Moral Context of Pastoral Care: Method and Conscience | |
| Responsibility and Conscience | |
| Stimulating Conscience in Pastoral Care | |
| Challenging Others with the Demands of Respect | |
| Challenging Others with Second-Order Responsibility | |
| Reconciling the Demands of Conscience | |
| Conclusion | |
| Shame and Distorted Presence in Pastoral Care and Counselling | p. 139 |
| Shame | p. 142 |
| A Phenomenology of Shame | |
| Exposure | |
| Incongruence | |
| Threat to Trust | |
| Involvement of the Whole Self | |
| Hiddenness | |
| Shame and Guilt | |
| Introducing the Shame Family | |
| Situational Shame | |
| Aesthetic Shame | |
| Inherited Identity Shame | |
| Inferiority Shame | |
| Moral Shame | |
| Shame and Failures in Availability in Counselling and in Care | p. 161 |
| In Betty's Case: The Shame Potential in Constancy | |
| Counselling 'Technocracy' as a Form of Nonavailability | |
| The Problem of Fidelity and the Shame of the Pastor | |
| Conclusion | |
| Shame and Disconfirmation in Counselling and in Care | p. 177 |
| Shame and 'Persecution' in Counselling | |
| A Biographical and Psychological Sketch of Anais Nin | |
| Intrusion: Shame and the 'Look' of the Counsellor | |
| Derogation: The Shame of Being Set Apart | |
| Reductionism: The Shame of Being Categorised | |
| The Shame of the Pastor in Turning from the Struggle | |
| Conclusion | |
| Shame, Sin and Conversion to Genuine Presence | p. 197 |
| Shame, Sin and Conscience | |
| The Discretionary Function of Shame in Counselling | |
| Disgrace-Shame and 'Conversion' to Genuine Presence | |
| Conclusion | |
| Summary | p. 215 |
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