Pamela Cooper-White

Pamela Cooper-White (1995) is Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA, and Co-Director of the Atlanta Theological Association’s Th.D. program in Pastoral Counseling. In 2005, she received the American Association of Pastoral Counselors' national award for "Distinguished Achievement in Research and Writing." She holds Ph.D.s from Harvard University and the Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago, and is the author of Braided Selves: Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons (forthcoming 2011), Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy and Theology in Relational Perspective (2007), Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling (2004), and The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church's Response (1995; 2nd ed. forthcoming 2011). An Episcopal priest and pastoral psychotherapist, Dr. Cooper-White is a clinical Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pastoral Theology.

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