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This book explores the similarities and differences between the practice of psychotherapy and spiritual direction and suggests that, whilst there may be distinctions between the two activities, the process is essentially the same. The purpose of the book is to improve the understanding between therapists and spiritual directors, to encourage dialogue and discussion between them, as well as to offer challenges and learning to both. In the process of exploring the interface between the practice of therapy and the practice of spiritual direction, questions arise about how to address issues of spirituality in a psychological context and psychological issues in a spiritual context. A brief overview of the historical background to spiritual direction is given, and attention drawn to the links between this tradition and the development of psychotherapy. Spiritual issues that may arise in therapy together with psychological issues that occur during spiritual direction are discussed, leading on to a comparison between 'dark night of the soul' experiences and clinical depression.
Psychotherapy --- Counseling --- Spirituality --- Spiritual direction. --- Direction, Spiritual --- Spiritual life --- Pastoral counseling --- Spiritual directors --- Religious aspects. --- Psychology.
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"Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly about many of the classic existential themes associated with Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers and Buber, prior to the publication of their main works. Marcel regarded himself as a "homo viator," a spiritual wanderer: "If man is essentially a voyager, it is because he is en route ... towards an end which one can say at once and contradictorily that he sees and does not see." As a self-described "philosopher of the threshold" and "an awakener," his stated goal was to shed some light on the nature of spiritual reality, those moments when one experiences an upsurge of the love of life. In this book, Paul Marcus joins the best of Marcellian and psychoanalytic insights to help the reader develop an inner sensibility that is more receptive, responsive and responsible to the transforming sacred presences that grace everyday life, such as are experienced in selfless love, hoping beyond hope, and maintaining faith in the goodness of the world despite its harsh challenges. Whether one is reading "Re-finding God during Chemo-therapy," "Maintaining Personal Dignity in the Face of the Mass Society," "On Fidelity and Betrayal in Love Relationships" or "The Kiss," Marcus, with the help of his two spiritual masters, Marcel and Freud, points the reader in the direction of a greater everyday sacred attunement to the eternal presences that life mysteriously reveals to those with a discerning eye and an open heart."--Provided by publisher.
Psychoanalysis. --- Spiritual direction. --- Direction, Spiritual --- Spiritual life --- Pastoral counseling --- Spiritual directors --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Marcel, Gabriel,
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This is the moving and improbable story of Claire Ferchaud, a young French shepherdess who had visions of Jesus and gained national fame as a modern-day Joan of Arc at the height of World War I. Claire experienced her first vision after a childhood trauma in which her mother locked her in a closet to break her stubborn willfulness. She developed her visionary gifts with the aid of spiritual directors and, by the age of twenty, she had come to believe that Jesus wanted France consecrated to the Sacred Heart. Claire believed that if France undertook this devotion, symbolized by adding the image of the Sacred Heart to the French flag, it would enjoy rapid victory in the war. From her modest origins to her spectacular ascent, Claire's life and times are deftly related with literary verve and insight in a book that gives a rare view of the French countryside during the Great War.
World War, 1914-1918 --- Sacred Heart, Devotion to --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church. --- History of doctrines --- Ferchaud, Claire, --- apotheosis. --- biography. --- childhood trauma. --- christianity. --- claire ferchaud. --- discussion books. --- downfall. --- european history. --- french countryside. --- french peasant. --- french war. --- historical nonfiction. --- historical visionaries. --- illustrated. --- jesus christ. --- joan of arc. --- life story. --- national fame. --- religious visions. --- sacred heart. --- spiritual development. --- spiritual directors. --- spiritual patronage. --- tragic history. --- visionary gifts. --- visions of jesus. --- war. --- world war i. --- wwi.
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To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionary expansion. Examining the practices of Catholics in Europe and New Spain from the 1520's through the 1760's, the book treats Jesuit techniques of self-formation, namely spiritual exercises and confessional practices, and the relationships between spiritual directors and their subjects. Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic were folded into a dynamic that shaped new concepts of self and, in the process, fueled the global Catholic missionary movement. Molina historicizes Jesuit meditation and narrative self-reflection as modes of self-formation that would ultimately contribute to a new understanding of religion as something private and personal, thereby overturning long-held concepts of personhood, time, space, and social reality. To Overcome Oneself demonstrates that it was through embodied processes that humans have come to experience themselves as split into mind and body. Notwithstanding the self-congratulatory role assigned to "consciousness" in the Western intellectual tradition, early moderns did not think themselves into thinking selves. Rather, "the self" was forged from embodied efforts to transcend self. Yet despite a discourse that situates self as interior, the actual fuel for continued self-transformation required an object-cum-subject-someone else to transform. Two constant questions throughout the book are: Why does the effort to know and transcend self require so many others? And what can we learn about the inherent intersubjectivity of missionary colonialism?
Self (Philosophy) --- Self --- Spiritual exercises. --- Exercises, Spiritual --- Meditations --- Philosophy --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Ignatius, --- Jesuits --- Spiritual life. --- Compagnie de Jésus --- Compañia de Jesus --- Gesellschaft Jesu --- Jesuitas --- Jesuiten --- Jesuiti --- Jezuïten --- Jésuites --- Paters Jezuïten --- Societeit van Jezus --- Society of Jesus --- イエズス会 --- カトリック イエズス会 --- 16th century. --- 17th century. --- 18th century. --- anthropology. --- catholic missionary expansion. --- catholic. --- christian institutions. --- christian organizations. --- christianity. --- god and religion. --- history. --- humanity. --- intellectual tradition. --- jesuit meditation. --- jesuit thought. --- jesuits. --- latin america. --- mind and body. --- missionary colonialism. --- missionary. --- modern self. --- new spain. --- religion. --- self transformation. --- social reality. --- spiritual directors. --- spiritual exercises. --- spiritual practices. --- spiritual. --- transcend self. --- western intellectual tradition.
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