Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, USA.
J Relig Health. 2009 Dec;48(4):507-27. doi: 10.1007/s10943-009-9258-6. Epub 2009 May 28.
This article on Norman Vincent Peale and Smiley Blanton, who cofounded the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry in 1937, focuses on books that they wrote in the 1950s: Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (1952) and Blanton's Love or Perish (1956). Similarities between Peale's problem-solving techniques and Milton E. Erickson's psychotherapeutic methods are demonstrated, and Blanton's indebtedness to psychoanalytic theories and methods is also shown. The Peale-Blanton collaboration suggests that pastoral counselors may legitimately employ these very different therapeutic approaches depending on the needs of the individual counselee. On the other hand, the fact that they subscribed to very different therapeutic approaches raises the question as to whether the two men shared anything in common as far as their professional work with individuals was concerned. The answer is that both believed that we humans possess an enormous reservoir of untapped energies that, when released and appropriately directed, are capable of effecting fundamental changes in an individual's life.
本文探讨了诺尔曼·文森特·皮尔和斯迈利·布兰顿，他们于 1937 年共同创立了美国宗教与精神病学基金会，重点介绍了他们在 20 世纪 50 年代撰写的书籍：皮尔的《积极思考的力量》（1952）和布兰顿的《爱或毁灭》（1956）。展示了皮尔的解决问题技巧与米尔顿·艾瑞克森的心理治疗方法之间的相似之处，也展示了布兰顿对精神分析理论和方法的依赖。皮尔-布兰顿的合作表明，牧师顾问可以根据个人咨询者的需求，合理地采用这些非常不同的治疗方法。另一方面，他们所采用的治疗方法非常不同，这就提出了一个问题，即就他们个人的专业工作而言，这两个人是否有任何共同点。答案是，两人都相信，我们人类拥有巨大的未开发能量储备，一旦释放并适当引导，就能够对个人的生活产生根本性的改变。
