Where the Waters Meet offers the reader a new way of viewing an old subject. So often psychology and counselling therapies have been, and still are, seen as competitors, or even enemies, vying for supremacy as the true religion. This book invites us to take a fresh look at these two fields, each with their own experience and dogma, and view them in a different light. We are introduced to complementarity, an approach through which vital common factors begin to break through the barriers of convention and jargon. This book is written from deeply held convictions about faith and about therapy and emerges from several decades of experience in ordained ministry, and of working as a psychodynamic counsellor. The author is passionate about both the healing process of therapy and the life-giving inspiration of faith. He sees the two not as enemies but as intrinsically linked.

デイヴィッド・バックリーが放つ本作は、心理学と信仰という、長年対立関係にあると見なされてきた二つの領域を「相補性」という新たな光で統合する野心作です。単なる論理の構築に留まらず、数十年に及ぶ司祭としての活動と心理療法士としての臨床経験に裏打ちされた言葉には、人間の魂の深淵に触れる圧倒的な説得力が宿っています。 著者は、科学的な癒やしのプロセスと信仰がもたらす生命力を、切り離せない一続きの営みとして描き出します。専門用語の壁を崩し、人間の全体性を回復させようとする情熱的な筆致は、自己探求の果てに真の平穏を求めるすべての読者にとって、魂の渇きを癒やす確かな導きとなるでしょう。