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	Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger Professor of Pastoral Theology Department of Practical Theology 15 Mackay Campus Center Phone: 609.497.7884 Fax: 609.497.7728 Email: deborah.hunsinger@ptsem.edu

Profile
Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger, professor of pastoral theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, earned her M.Div. from Yale University Divinity School, and her M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She was also a matriculated auditor at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. An ordained Presbyterian minister, she is interested in educating clergy and laypeople to offer theologically sound and psychologically informed pastoral care in the church. In addition to her doctoral seminars, she teaches courses on the theory and practice of pastoral care, the theological foundations and clinical skills of pastoral counseling, marriage and family, prayer and pastoral care, developing compassionate communication in the church, and the relevance of Jungian concepts and methods for pastoral care and counseling. As a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, she has received extensive training in a variety of therapeutic modalities, having worked with individuals, couples, families, and groups. She is a member of the Society for Pastoral Theology and of the Karl Barth Society of North America.

Major Publications
Theology and Pastoral Counseling: A New Interdisciplinary Approach (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1995) The New Dictionary of Pastoral Studies, ed. Wesley Carr, Donald Capps, Robin Gill, Anton Obholzer, Ruth Page, Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger, Rowan Williams (SPCK and Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002) Pray without Ceasing: Revitalizing Pastoral Care (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2006)