Title: Ministers in Trouble: A Study of 140 Cases Evaluated at the Menninger Foundation
Abstract: In this paper certain demographic and diagnostic findings of a group of 140 Protestant ministers who came for evaluation at The Menninger Foundation are presented. Some of the implications of these data are discussed and case examples are given. A general thesis that the ministers of this population entered the ministry partly for defensive and sublimatory purposes is discussed. The features of a minister's role and environment that support the minister despite psychological handicaps are discussed. Also noted are the role stresses present in contemporary ministry that in this group eventuated in psychological breakdown.
Publication Year: 1977
Publication Date: 1977-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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