Main description:

This book invites readers, particularly clergy members, to rethink their understandings of the human person in light of recent developments in neuroscience. In addition to bringing together religion and neuroscience, it engages narrative theory, exercise physiology, and constructions of wellness to raise crucial questions about human identity and relationality and argue for a model of care that connects self-care and care for/with others. Furthermore, it claims that human beings are whole, intra/inter-relational, dynamic, plastic, and performative agents who have the capacity to story themselves neurophysiologically (in both "top-down" and "bottom-up" ways) through their regular practices of wellness.

Contents:

1. Neuroscience: The Organizing System For Experience And Meaning-Making
2. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Understandings of Self
3. A Working Theory of Wellness
4. Performativity And Plasticity: Storying Self Bi-Directionally In The Embodied Brain Ecosystem
5. Theoretical and Therapeutic Implications
6. A Theraputic Framework: A Case for Short-Term Clincial Skills in Spiritual Care and Counseling Contexts