The road less traveled a new psychology of love, traditional values and spiritual growth
A psychiatrist suggests ways in which confronting and resolving problems, a painful process most people try to avoid, can lead to greater self-understanding and spiritual growth. Life is difficult he says, and the journey to spiritual growth is a long one. Here he helps us explore the very loving na...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2003.
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| Edition: | 25th Anniversary ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the 25th anniversary edition
- Discipline. Problems and pain
- Delaying gratification
- The sins of the father
- Problem-solving and time
- Responsibility
- Neuroses and character disorders
- Escape from freedom
- Dedication to reality
- Transference: the outdated map
- Openness to challenge
- Withholding truth
- Balancing
- The healthiness of depression
- Renunciation and rebirth.
- Love. Love defined
- Falling in "love"
- The myth of romantic love
- More about ego boundaries
- Dependency
- Cathexis without love
- "Self-sacrifice"
- Love is not a feeling
- The work of attention
- The risk of loss
- The risk of independence
- The risk of commitment
- The risk of confrontation
- Love is disciplined
- Love is separateness
- Love and psychotherapy
- The mystery of love.
- Growth and Religion. World views and religion
- The religion of science
- The case of Kathy
- The case of Marcia
- The case of Theodore
- The baby and the bath water
- Scientific tunnel vision.
- Grace. The miracle of health
- The miracle of the unconscious
- The miracle of serendipity
- The definition of grace
- The miracle of evolution
- The alpha and the omega
- Entropy and original sin
- The problem of evil
- The evolution of consciousness
- The nature of power
- Grace and mental illness: the myth of Orestes
- Resistance to grace
- The welcoming of grace.
