An Introduction to Spiritual Direction: A Psychological Approach for Directors and Directees

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Summary: what's here is excellent! What's missing is critical!
Review: As a minister working in spiritual direction and ministerial formation I read this book with great interest. The author presents some critical points in the journey of companioning others. His understanding of the different "levels" of faith, the work of individuation, the usefulness of Jungian thought to spirituality, is a most useful consolidation of such material. What is a major disappointment is his 'technique' that assumes that spiritual growth is all about 'us.' Nowhere does he state that effective direction is as, or even more concerned with what the Holy is doing in a directee's life as what the directee (or director) is doing. This alone is enough to have me not recommend this book to ministry colleagues and students.