John P. Kildahl

are few people in the counseling world today who can walk T HERE with dignity on the narrow path that separates the pastoral counselor from the clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. The Rev. John P. Kildahl, Ph.D., is one of the unique individuals who can not only walk the narrow path but roam as far as necessary on either side because he is accepted without question in the field of theology and in the field of psychology. Dr. Kildahl is "at home" in both theological and psychological professional groups. When he is among a group of ministers he fits into the mold without difficulty, and when he is with the psychologists he is equally accepted even when wearing a clerical collar. Recently he was called upon by a group of ministers to preach a Sunday morning sermon. After listening to the sermon, a stranger could have remarked, "There is a mighty fine pastor." A half hour after delivering the sermon he was leading a forum dealing with the subject matter he had presented from the pulpit. A stranger in this group could have said, "There is a psychologist who has both feet on the ground." The persons who had the privilege of hearing him preach, and later lead a discussion on the content of the sermon from the psychologist's point of view, will always remember the fine professional approach he used while in the pulpit and while ~I~AN leading the discussion. Dr. Kildahl was truly brought up in the 0{ tile church. His father was a Lutheran pastor, and his grandfather was president of a Lutheran col~1~ 0 N T H lege. Dr. Kildahl is a graduate of St. Olaf College and Luther Seminary. The steps leading to his dual professional status began when he was in (Continued on page 65)

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tagu. G. P. Putnam's Sons, $5.95. A series of some 60 essays by a distinguished anthropologist, analyzing the morals, attitudes, habits, manners, and peculiarities of Americans. In these essays, Dr. Montagu stresses both the promises which we are in the process of fulfilling, and sharply attacks those promises which have been betrayed. These include sexual values, medical ethics, violence, conformity, air pollution, television, foreign policy, big business, Boy Scouts, and Christmas. BLACK AFRICA,Vols. 1 and 2. By Russell Warren Howe. Walker & Co., $7.50 per volume. A two-volume study of the history of sub-Saharan Africa from earliest times to the present day, covering every territory on the Continent and embracing an account of the ancient civilization, the growth of progressive and aggressive States alongside tribal societies, the vicissitudes of colonization, and the growth of independence. The two volumes are divided into Volume 1: From Pre-History to the Eve of the Colonial Era, and Volume 2: From the Colonial Era to Moderr, Times. CULTURE AND SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY. By Marvin K. Opler. Atherton Press, $8.95. A pro-

found work of social synthesis analyzing with great insight the relationship between culture and mental health. The author's thesis, based upon his own deep knowledge of the crosscultUral studies in psychiatry, anthropology, and sociology, is that "throughout history mental diseases have been closely linked with the prevailing culture." The author is Professor of Social Psychiatry and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the State University of New York, and editor of the "International Journal of Social Psychiatry." OUR TROUBLED CHILDREN--OUR COMMUNITY'S

CHALLENGE. Columbia University Press, $5.00. The volume represents the proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Edwin Gould Foundation for Children held at Arden House in April, 1966. The symposium is made up of a series of some 50 authoritative articles covering the areas of social work, education, religion, medicine, police courts, recreation, government, economics, and business. ....

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Volume 7 of the Collected Works o~ C. C. Jung, trans, by R. F. C. Hull. Pantheon Books (Bollingen Series), $4.50. This is the second edition of Jung's classical studies on analytical psychology--The Relation Between the Ego and the Unconscious and on The Psychology of the Unconscious--essays in which Dr. Jung presents the essential core of his entire system. These essays historically mark the end of Jung's intimate association with Freud and some of his attempts to interpret the psychological schools of Freud and Adler into his own comprehensive framework. AN AMERICAN WOMAN AND ALCOHOL. By Patricia Kent. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $4.95. A new book discussing the special problems of the woman alcoholic from the standpoint of the woman herself, her family, her job, the men in her life, and the "ways out." The book has a special chapter on the use of pills as a false escape from the dilemmas of living and particularly from the problems of alcoholism. The author herself is an ex-aleoholic member of Alcoholics Anonymous and writes under a pseudonym.

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(Continued from pctge 4) seminary and enrolled at the Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, in a program of clinical pastoral education, which he continued at Bellevue Hospital. He is in demand as a speaker in colleges and seminaries, state, national and world ecclesiastical groups, and as a leader of seminars on every type of mental and religious subject. He is an ordained pastor (of the American Lutheran Church), a clinical psychologist (Ph.D. from New York U n i v e r s i t y ) , and a psychoanalyst (Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York City). He has also studied at the University of Minnesota, U n i o n Theological Seminary, and the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry. When a professional person attains distinction in his own right, it is interesting to look at early records and read what was said about him when he started 65

on his road to distinction. The first chaplain supervisor under whom Dr. Kildahl received his CPE wrote a lengthy report. Throughout the report words such as resistive, evasive, cocksure, rebellious, are to be found. The supervisor ends his report by saying, "I think it is not inappropriate to say that his whole course of life has been changed after this training (CPE) and his approach to people will be on an entirely more realistic level." He further stated, "With new insight and direction of future l e a r n i n g . . . I feel he has a good possibility of being a skillful minister." The supervisor who made this unique prediction never lived to see the truth of his statements. In Dr. Kildahl's evaluation of his first quarter of CPE (1951) he wrote, "I can't imagine what kind of a pastor I would have been if I had not had this training (CPE). I feel that any help I would have been able to give would have been very superficial." From 1957 to 1967, Dr. Kildahl was Chief Psychologist at the Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, N. Y. At present he divides his time three ways: in his private practice of individual and group psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York; as a staff member and lecturer at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health; and most recently he was appointed Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Pastoral Psychology at New York Theological Seminary. It is in this latter program that clergymen of the three faiths are able to pursue a master's degree in pastoral counseling through a course of study jointly administered by New York Seminary and the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. In addition to these activities, Dr. Kildam is continuing his research on glossolalia and mental health, supported by a research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. He also writes 66

regularly for religious and psychological journals. A good psychologist and pastor never forgets his family responsibilities. Dr. Kildahl is an avid tennis player, a sailor at his summer lake home, and a builder of furniture for his wife and their five children. From this description, it may seem we are looking at someone resembling "What Makes Sammy Run?" But this is not true. To Dr. Kildahl, "togetherness" and "relationships" are not mere words. in all situations, clinical and academic, personal or group, he relaxes into the situation as it is presented. His sincerity is quickly experienced. His affability is climaxed by a smile that is his trademark. He gives of himself to the church at large and to the field of psychology wherever and whenever he is needed. --HENRY H. CASSLER

Secretary Clinical Pastoral Education Lutheran Council in the U.S.d.

Six Dreams of a Clergyman in Psychoanalysis (Continued front page 10) disabling aspects of those fears, it is possible thus to become a person who uses the gifts with which he is endowed. To my way of thinking, therapy and analysis are essentially education, in the true sense of that word: fromeducere, meaning to lead forth, or bring out. in the case of psychotherapy, the learner is helped in his evolving by a doctor; and the root meaning of "doctor" is from the Latin docere, to teach. Psychoanalysis is education in the finest sense. In an atmosphere of respect, understanding, and support a man is provided with optimum conditions for growth. The formation ~and education of a clergyman is greatly enhanced b y the kind of "leading out" that is possible in the psychoanalytic experience. PASTORALPSYCHOLOGY/APRIL1963