The psychology of mature spirituality : integrity, wisdom, transcendence

Includes bibliographical references and index.. Responsibility edited by Polly Young-Eisendrath and Melvin E. Miller.

Introduction - Beyond enlightened self-interest: the psychology of mature spirituality in the twenty-first century - Polly Young-Eisendrath and Melvin E. Miller. Part 1 - Integrity. 1 The place of integrity in spirituality - John Beebe. 2 A Buddha and his cousin - Richard P. Hayes. 3 The mutual influence and involvement of therapist and patient: co-contributors to maturation and integrity - Melvin E. Miller. 4 Spiritual abuse: when good people do bad things - Demaris S. Wehr. 5 Authenticity and integrity: a Heideggerian perspective - Charles Guignon. Part 2 - Wisdom. 6 The wisdom of psychological creativity and amor fati - Sherry Salman. 7 Relationship as a path to integrity, wisdom, and meaning - Ruthellen Josselson. 8 Affect complexity and views of the transcendent - Gisela Labouvie-Fief. 9 The Tao of wisdom: integration of Taoism and the psychologies of Jung, Erikson, and Maslow - David H. Rosen and Ellen M. Crouse. Part 3 - Transcendence. 10 Psychotherapy as ordinary transcendence: the unspeakable and the unspoken - Polly Young-Eisendrath. 11 Emissaries from the underworld: psychotherapy's challenge to Christian fundamentalism - Roger Brooke. 12 The prism self: multiplicity on the path to transcendence - Judith Stevens-Long. 13 Wholeness and transcendence in the practice of pastoral psychotherapy from a Judeo-Christian perspective - Terrill L. Gibson. 14 Green spirituality: horizontal transcendence - Michael C. Kalton

'...Enlightened secularism and humanism no longer seem adequate for living an ethical life, but religious practices and spiritual paths still seem at odds with intelligence and rationality. [The book] addresses this dilemma. Its three sections...describe and analyze a mature form of spirituality that will be a hallmark of future years....showing the reader how human development over the lifespan can lead to a belief system that places neither god(s) nor humankind at the metaphorical centre of the universe. What they describe is a new "skeptical spirituality".'

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