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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-- Neuroses and character disorders -- Escape from freedom -- Dedication to reality -- Transference : the outdated map -- Openness to challenge -- Withholding truth -- Balancing -- The healthiness of depression -- Renunciation and rebirth -- II.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.

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-- Neuroses and character disorders -- Escape from freedom -- Dedication to reality -- Transference : the outdated map -- Openness to challenge -- Withholding truth -- Balancing -- The healthiness of depression -- Renunciation and rebirth -- II.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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