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The road less traveled : a new psychology of love, traditional values, and spiritual growth /

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Touchstone bookPublication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, �1978.Description: 316 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0671250671 (pbk.)
  • 9780671250676 (pbk.)
  • 0671673009 (flexbind)
  • 9780671673000 (flexbind)
  • 0671240862 (hardcover)
  • 9780671240868 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Road less traveled.DDC classification:
  • 158/.1
LOC classification:
  • BF637.S4 P43 1978
NLM classification:
  • BF 637.S4 P367r 1978
Contents:
I. 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-- Neuroses and character disorders -- Escape from freedom -- Dedication to reality -- Transference : the outdated map -- Openness to challenge -- Withholding truth -- Balancing -- The healthiness of depression -- Renunciation and rebirth -- II. 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 -- III. 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 -- IV. 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.
Summary: Discusses the nature of loving relationships in the context of traditional psychological and spiritual insights.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 158.1 PEC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) BF637.S4 Available 34562000042068

Includes bibliographical references.

I. 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 -- II. 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 -- III. 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 -- IV. 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.

Discusses the nature of loving relationships in the context of traditional psychological and spiritual insights.

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