The Beautiful Risk

by James H. Olthuis

The heart is too much a mystery for us to approach its healing as a simple matter of finding and fixing the problem. Methods alone cannot meet the deep, aching need of souls that cry not for solutions, but for connection. The Beautiful Risk encourages us to trade cure for care, expertise for partnership, and mastery for love. With perspective-shifting insights and examples, Dr. James Olthuis helps us--both counselors and those who come for counsel--to move beyond control and technique and join in a risky but glorious dance of relationship, love, and healing.

Genres: Psychology

256 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2001

Reviews

[Tess]

Read this book as a textbook for my foundations class as apart of my counselling masters degree but wow what a read, I feel like I was transformed and changed. I learned a lot and yet finished with a feeling of encouragement and a desire to find the wild spaces. I’d definitely recommend, even to those who are not looking to pursue knowledge in formal counselling.

[John Zak]

This may be the best book I have ever read! It integrates faith and psychotherapy in a way that makes sense.