THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MATURE SPIRITUALITY HB

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
The Contributors......Page 9
Introduction Beyond Enlightened self-interest The Psychology of Mature Spirituality in the Twenty-first Century......Page 13
Part I Integrity......Page 20
1. The Place of Integrity in Spirituality......Page 21
2. A Buddha and his Cousin......Page 29
3. The Mutual Influence and Involvement of Therapist and Patient: Co-contributors to Maturation and Integrity......Page 39
4. Spiritual Abuse: When Good People do Bad Things......Page 49
5. Authenticity and Integrity: A Heideggerian Perspective......Page 61
Part II Wisdom......Page 71
6. The Wisdom of Psychological Creativity and Amor Fati......Page 72
7. Relationship as a Path to Integrity, Wisdom, and Meaning......Page 80
8. Affect Complexity and Views of the Transcendent......Page 93
9. The Tao of Wisdom: Integration of Taoism and the Psychologies of Jung, Erikson, and Maslow......Page 107
Part III Transcendence......Page 116
10. Psychotherapy as Ordinary Transcendence: The Unspeakable and the Unspoken......Page 117
11. Emissaries from the Underworld: Psychotherapy's Challenge to Christian Fundamentalism......Page 127
12. The Prism Self: Multiplicty on the Path to Transcendence......Page 139
13. Wholeness and Transcendence in the Practice of Pastoral Psychotherapy from a Judeo-Christian Perspective......Page 151
14. Green Spirituality: Horizontal Transcendence......Page 160
Author Index......Page 171
Subject Index......Page 177