Description
The present book aims to respond to this need by addressing the consonance and individuality in human nature, and the ways in which ordering in personality and psychology are
not inhibiting, but potentially liberating and influential. Francisco Insa draws from his medical and theological background, which includes both clinical and pastoral experience, to address all those responsible for the formation of others--including parents, teachers, priests, spiritual directors--and enables them to confront their roles as formators with greater insight and confidence. Insa's guidance through the human personality and its various expressions, the education of the character, growth in maturity, the particularity of each stage of the life cycle, sexuality and celibacy, chastity in the context of post-modern life, and mental illnesses is a landmark presentation of scientific rigor matched with practical application. As often as one says, "My situation is unique,"; the author here responds: "Yes, but special even more than you can express"; Insa is forthright about what can never be lost in human beings, but only recovered when the head and heart are aligned and formed properly.
For as much as this book may help the reader understand himself, it will also render him better understood by others. The Christian approach to the formation of affectivity, as Insa shows, is indispensable to deep and enduring human development, and it is often the only way to identify and mediate interior dissonance and confusion.
About the Author
Francisco Insa teaches moral theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome), and carries out pastoral work with people of all ages. Before his priestly ordination he graduated in Medicine and specialized in Psychiatry. His areas of teaching and research include Bioethics and Psychology applied to Christian formation. In recent years he has given courses in different countries on the formation of affectivity for parents, teachers, priests, seminary formators, etc. This book gathers the contents of these courses in a systematic way and adapted to a wide public.
Book Information
ISBN 9781587312489
Author Francisco Insa
Format Paperback
Page Count 356
Imprint St Augustine's Press
Publisher St Augustine's Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm