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 |
Bibliography | 377 |
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