The Beautiful Risk: A New Psychology of Loving and Being Loved

The current dominant models of therapy in Christian as well as non-Christian circles emphasize--in the spirit of modernism--expertise, testing, control, method, rationality, independence, conformity, and cure. James Olthuis's new relational model of therapy--in tune with what is today called postmodernism--reflects concerns for connection, emotional experience, particularity, multiplicity, and otherness.