McClure (pastoral theology, Vanderbilt U., Tennessee) finds the individualist foundations of pastoral theology to be at odds with the prevailing theories of the social origins of selfhood. Writing for students and practitioners, she discusses how that happened, the implications, and what might be done about it. She covers the development of pastoral care and counseling as a professionalized practice; accounting for individualism's persistence in pastoral theology, care, and counseling; and theoretical, theological, practical, and organizational proposals for moving beyond individualism in pastoral care and counseling. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)