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Madurez psicológica y espiritual (Pelícano)
¿Se puede salir de la depresión? ¿Cómo vencer la ansiedad? ¿Existen medios para superar la adicción a las drogas o a internet? ¿Qué puede hacer la familia de una persona con trastornos mentales? ¿Cuándo se necesita un médico, un psicólogo o un sacerdote? El libro ofrece respuestas a estas y otras cuestiones de innegable actualidad.
El autor pone de relieve el valor de la vida espiritual para la serenidad y el equilibrio, con sugerencias prácticas para entender, tratar y prevenir problemas psicológicos, sabiendo distinguirlos de las dificultades espirituales. Se aclara el significado de los síntomas y se guía al lector hacia las opciones que parecen más apropiadas. La personalidad madura se presenta como un reto atractivo, y el inconsciente no se considera un espacio impenetrable.
Este volumen constituye una novedad que podrá ser útil a educadores, sacerdotes y profesionales de la salud, así como a estudiantes de psicología, medicina, teología y otras disciplinas. Será también un valioso recurso para los padres y para todos aquellos que deseen profundizar en estos argumentos. Junto con ser un manual científico, se convierte en una guía para entender la salud mental y espiritual y en una pauta para la búsqueda del equilibrio personal.
Wenceslao Vial es profesor de psicología y vida espiritual en la Facultad de Teología de la Pontificia Universidad de la Santa Cruz, Roma. Médico y sacerdote, doctor en filosofía, combina sus conocimientos clínicos y su labor académica con una amplia actividad pastoral en relación con diferentes países y culturas. Ha publicado también La antropología de Viktor el dolor de una puerta abierta (2000).
El autor pone de relieve el valor de la vida espiritual para la serenidad y el equilibrio, con sugerencias prácticas para entender, tratar y prevenir problemas psicológicos, sabiendo distinguirlos de las dificultades espirituales. Se aclara el significado de los síntomas y se guía al lector hacia las opciones que parecen más apropiadas. La personalidad madura se presenta como un reto atractivo, y el inconsciente no se considera un espacio impenetrable.
Este volumen constituye una novedad que podrá ser útil a educadores, sacerdotes y profesionales de la salud, así como a estudiantes de psicología, medicina, teología y otras disciplinas. Será también un valioso recurso para los padres y para todos aquellos que deseen profundizar en estos argumentos. Junto con ser un manual científico, se convierte en una guía para entender la salud mental y espiritual y en una pauta para la búsqueda del equilibrio personal.
Wenceslao Vial es profesor de psicología y vida espiritual en la Facultad de Teología de la Pontificia Universidad de la Santa Cruz, Roma. Médico y sacerdote, doctor en filosofía, combina sus conocimientos clínicos y su labor académica con una amplia actividad pastoral en relación con diferentes países y culturas. Ha publicado también La antropología de Viktor el dolor de una puerta abierta (2000).
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Wenceslao Vial
10 books2 followersMédico cirujano (Universidad de Chile), Doctor en Filosofía (Pontificia Universidad de la Santa Cruz). Sacerdote desde el año 2000.
Actualmente es profesor en la Facultad de Teología de la Pontificia Universidad de la Santa Cruz, en Roma, donde imparte los cursos de: Psicología y vida espiritual, y Psicología de la personalidad aplicada a la dirección espiritual.
El año 2000 publicó: La antropología de Víktor Frankl: El dolor una puerta abierta. Entre sus obras más recientes, se encuentran: Madurez psicológica y espiritual, Palabra, Madrid 2019 (4ª)
Es editor de Ser quien eres. Cómo construir una personalidad feliz, Rialp, Madrid 2017 y Logos, Rosario 2018 (Be who you are, Scepter, New York 2018; Français: Deviens ce que tu es.
Su último libro publicado es: El sacerdote, psicología de una vocación , Palabra, febrero 2020.
Actualmente es profesor en la Facultad de Teología de la Pontificia Universidad de la Santa Cruz, en Roma, donde imparte los cursos de: Psicología y vida espiritual, y Psicología de la personalidad aplicada a la dirección espiritual.
El año 2000 publicó: La antropología de Víktor Frankl: El dolor una puerta abierta. Entre sus obras más recientes, se encuentran: Madurez psicológica y espiritual, Palabra, Madrid 2019 (4ª)
Es editor de Ser quien eres. Cómo construir una personalidad feliz, Rialp, Madrid 2017 y Logos, Rosario 2018 (Be who you are, Scepter, New York 2018; Français: Deviens ce que tu es.
Su último libro publicado es: El sacerdote, psicología de una vocación , Palabra, febrero 2020.
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February 16, 2019
Amazingly useful and rich
One of the best aspects of this study is that it clarified the difference between personalities characteristics that might be at risk, like egocentrism, perfectionism, emotionalism, etc, and those that are truly pathological, like narcissism, paranoid disorders, borderline personality, etc. It helps to see if one is a at risk, and one is not careful, one could fall into the pathological category. Chapter 2 has a long history of psychoanalysis, which I suppose is necessary, but could have been more summarized. I loved the passages about human maturity, and the very clear descriptions of expressions of immaturity. The practice of lists of characteristics helps make the point very clear. At times when one is doing spiritual direction and one recognizes certain pathological traits, one has to be humble enough to understand that such a diagnosis is up to a professional, not to the spiritual director. Personally, I don´t always have the resources available to guide someone to the appropriate psychotherapist that would give a therapy that is not in contradiction to Christian principles. I can say that they should consult a professional, but it would be easier if I had some specific contact, even a website that I could direct them to. I hope the book eventually gets translated into English and French. It deserves it.
One of the best aspects of this study is that it clarified the difference between personalities characteristics that might be at risk, like egocentrism, perfectionism, emotionalism, etc, and those that are truly pathological, like narcissism, paranoid disorders, borderline personality, etc. It helps to see if one is a at risk, and one is not careful, one could fall into the pathological category. Chapter 2 has a long history of psychoanalysis, which I suppose is necessary, but could have been more summarized. I loved the passages about human maturity, and the very clear descriptions of expressions of immaturity. The practice of lists of characteristics helps make the point very clear. At times when one is doing spiritual direction and one recognizes certain pathological traits, one has to be humble enough to understand that such a diagnosis is up to a professional, not to the spiritual director. Personally, I don´t always have the resources available to guide someone to the appropriate psychotherapist that would give a therapy that is not in contradiction to Christian principles. I can say that they should consult a professional, but it would be easier if I had some specific contact, even a website that I could direct them to. I hope the book eventually gets translated into English and French. It deserves it.
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April 12, 2025I didn't actually read this book, I read "Be Who You Are: Developing Your Christian Personality" by the same author but I couldn't find it in Goodreads so I will put it on this book.
p. 24 "Let yourself be carried by grace! Let your heart fly! Write your own little novel: a novel of sacrifice and heroism. With God's grace, your dreams will fall short."
p. 26 The human being is "the only creature on Earth that God willed for itself."
p. 29 We need to foster personal reflection and ask how God sees us. Prayer is the best time since getting to know God we also get to know ourselves.
p.31 In the final analysis, we will accept ourselves as we are if we do not lose sight of the fact that God loves us with our limitations, which form part of our paths to holiness and are the raw material for our personal struggles.
p. 32 You say you've failed. We never fail. You placed your trust wholly in God. And you did not neglect any human means. Convince yourself of this truth: your success- this time-was to fail. Give thanks to our Lord and try again.
p. 62 Perhaps first we have to break the ice that can make communication difficult. Opportune questions can open up a current of interest with the person we are dialoging with. Then we will listen attentively to topics that perhaps at first do not greatly attract us. This does not imply hypocrisy on our part, but rather the sincere effort to rise above our own points of view and learn from others.
p. 95 I beleive there are quiet victiories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism in it (even in many of its apparently lighter moments and contradictions) not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience, done every day in nooks and crannies, in little households, and in men's and women's hearts. Any one of these might reconcile the sternest man in the world, and fill him with belief and hope in it."
p. 112 No human life is ever isolated. It is bound up with other lives. No man or woman is a single verse; we all make up one divine poem which God writes with the cooperation of are freedom. Others are not simply objects near us, like a stone by the side of the road. They belong to us and we belong to them, more intimately than we can imagine. We will understand this fully in heaven, although on earth we can catch a glimpse of it, in striving to live close to God and to those around us. This mutual belonging has two very important implications: others depend on me, and I can and should depend on them.
p. 24 "Let yourself be carried by grace! Let your heart fly! Write your own little novel: a novel of sacrifice and heroism. With God's grace, your dreams will fall short."
p. 26 The human being is "the only creature on Earth that God willed for itself."
p. 29 We need to foster personal reflection and ask how God sees us. Prayer is the best time since getting to know God we also get to know ourselves.
p.31 In the final analysis, we will accept ourselves as we are if we do not lose sight of the fact that God loves us with our limitations, which form part of our paths to holiness and are the raw material for our personal struggles.
p. 32 You say you've failed. We never fail. You placed your trust wholly in God. And you did not neglect any human means. Convince yourself of this truth: your success- this time-was to fail. Give thanks to our Lord and try again.
p. 62 Perhaps first we have to break the ice that can make communication difficult. Opportune questions can open up a current of interest with the person we are dialoging with. Then we will listen attentively to topics that perhaps at first do not greatly attract us. This does not imply hypocrisy on our part, but rather the sincere effort to rise above our own points of view and learn from others.
p. 95 I beleive there are quiet victiories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism in it (even in many of its apparently lighter moments and contradictions) not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience, done every day in nooks and crannies, in little households, and in men's and women's hearts. Any one of these might reconcile the sternest man in the world, and fill him with belief and hope in it."
p. 112 No human life is ever isolated. It is bound up with other lives. No man or woman is a single verse; we all make up one divine poem which God writes with the cooperation of are freedom. Others are not simply objects near us, like a stone by the side of the road. They belong to us and we belong to them, more intimately than we can imagine. We will understand this fully in heaven, although on earth we can catch a glimpse of it, in striving to live close to God and to those around us. This mutual belonging has two very important implications: others depend on me, and I can and should depend on them.
April 29, 2023
It took me so long to finish it, but it was worthy.
Aborda con respeto científico los estudios de la mente y del espíritu, es muy enriquecedor. Introduce a conceptos muy importantes, explora con honestidad y apertura la convergencia y las diferencias entre el enfoque psicológico y espiritual.
Muy útil para aconsejar, para entender, para crecer en trato con Dios.
Lo veo como una herramienta demasiado útil.
Aborda con respeto científico los estudios de la mente y del espíritu, es muy enriquecedor. Introduce a conceptos muy importantes, explora con honestidad y apertura la convergencia y las diferencias entre el enfoque psicológico y espiritual.
Muy útil para aconsejar, para entender, para crecer en trato con Dios.
Lo veo como una herramienta demasiado útil.
April 20, 2022
Súper bueno y completo. Me encanto la parte del glosario
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