Human Development: Psychology and MysteryThis book is a magisterial treatment of the wide spectrum of psychological aspects of growing in grace as a spiritual creature, while also developing as a human being. For the author 'being human' is physical, psychological, and spiritual. The integration of all three is for him a possibility both to be desired and worked toward, not a paradox. As a teacher of teachers, Imoda has been commited to transmitting to his students a way to teach novices and laymen how growing in the love of God is a logical development from increasing the grasp of their emotional bases. For teachers this book is a 'vade mecum' which gives them a structure within which people can be encouraged to explore their emotional underpinnings, so that they may grow out of their psychological and spiritual immaturity. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Mystery of Man | 10 |
Anthropological Reflection on the Mystery of Man | 32 |
Otherness Temporality Stages | 71 |
Functions and Applications | 101 |
Human Mystery and the Development of Orthopathy | 136 |
Human Mystery and the Development of Relationship | 189 |
The Mystery of Man and Cognitive Development | 227 |
Development as Education or Miseducation | 335 |
Educational Encounter as Interpretation | 336 |
Beyond Technique | 337 |
Questions as Point of Departure and Educative Opportunity | 339 |
What Should I Do? | 340 |
Appearances or Reality? | 346 |
Subjective Pole or Objective Pole ? | 349 |
Is Change Possible? | 351 |
The Human Mystery and the Development of the Self | 272 |
Concluding Reflections | 320 |
b Psychology and Anthropology in the Development of the Self | 321 |
The Questions Reconsidered | 322 |
The Paradoxical Dimension of Development | 324 |
e The Development of the Self and Communication | 325 |
f The Myth of Total Communication | 326 |
g The Development of the Self and the Ability to Wait | 328 |
h Human and Religious Development | 329 |
Losing oneself to find oneself and Finding oneself to lose oneself | 331 |
A Pedagogical Conversation | 333 |
Human Development and the Pedagogy of Mystery | 334 |
Closeness or Distance in the Educative Relationship? | 354 |
Transferential Relationships | 357 |
Inaccessible Persons? | 359 |
Time of Growth Patience | 361 |
HumanPsychological Struggle and Religious Struggle | 362 |
Mystery Lost and Mystery to be Regained | 365 |
b Height and the Recovery of Mystery | 367 |
Depth and the Recovery of Mystery | 368 |
Glossary | 370 |
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Common terms and phrases
acceptance affective answer anthropological reality antinomy anxiety aspect attitudes authentic basic become C.S. Lewis capacity challenge chapter cognitive development complex component concrete conflict confrontation constitute context cultural demands depth psychology desire developmental developmental psychology dialogue dimension dynamic educative emotional encounter existential experience expression fact forms freedom function fundamental Gaudium et Spes Gedo hence horizon human development human mystery human person ideal Ignatius of Loyola Imoda important individual integration interpersonal interpersonal relationship interpretation knowing less limit linked lived Manicheism maturity meaning mediations modes motivational object objectivizing observations one's oneself ontological operations orthopraxis parameter past pedagogical personal mystery poles possible present primitive problem psychodynamic psychological psychological anthropology quest question reality of mystery reduced reductionism relation relationship religious remains response Ridick rience Rulla seeking self-transcendence sense situation specific spiritual stages structures struggle subconscious super-ego temporality tension theme theocentric tion transcendence truth values