Pamela Cooper-White

Pamela Cooper-White (born 3 October 1955) is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

She was previously the Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA and Co-Director of the Atlanta Theological Association's Th.D. program in Pastoral Counseling. She is an ordained Priest in the Episcopal Church 1992–present (previously an ordained Minister in The United Church of Christ, 1984–1988). She was the Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna, Austria 2013–14.

Published works

• Old and Dirty Gods: Religion, Antisemitism, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2017)
• Exploring Practices of Ministry (with Michael Cooper-White, 2013)
• Braided Selves: Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons (2011)
• Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy and Theology in Relational Perspective (2006)
• Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling (2004)
• The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church's Response (1995; 2nd ed. 2012)
• Schoenberg and the God-Idea: The Opera ‘Moses und Aron’ (1985)