Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 253.53
EAN: 9780060655679
ISBN: 0060655674
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: May 08, 1992
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: May 08, 1992
Sales Rank: 71885
Studio: HarperOne

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


Although secular psychology addressed a great deal about how we come to be the way we are and how we might live more efficiently, it can offer nothing in terms of why we exist or how we should use our lives," writes Gerald May in this classic discussion of the nature of contemporary spiritual guidance and its relationship to counseling and psychiatry. For millions turning for answers to the world of the spirit, May shows how psychiatry and spiritual direction are alike, how they complement one another, and how they ultimately diverge.






Rating: - Care of Mind/Care of Spirit
this book was required reading for a course. Though this edition is a revised one, dated in the early 90's (the original was 1982), much of the information regarding psychiatric disorders and alcohol/substance abuse, in particular, are horrendously out of date!! As a licensed mental health counselor and a credentialed substance abuse counselor, I was somewhat appalled at the "facts" put forth in this book for those not in the field. There have been 2 subsequent versions of the DSM published since ... Read More

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Rating: - May offers a fresh perspective on an old question
This work offers a new look at the question of how one can integrate one's spiritual life with their psychological life. What makes this book distinctive is that May starts from the perspective of a psychiatrist and reaches into the domain of the spiritual life of therapy clients. He has done that task of integration well and thoroughly. There are many other writers and clinicians who have attempted this task, yet have failed because they've minimized one discipline or the other. May manages to ... Read More

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