Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint

by W. Meissner S.J.

Ignatius of Loyola--knight, saint, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)--was one of the greatest figures in Western Christianity. This book, written by a psychiatrist-psychoanalyst who is also a Jesuit, is the first work to look behind the events, accounts, and documents of Ignatius' life and religious experience in order to enter and understand his inner world. 24 illustrations.

Genres: Biography, Psychology, Theology

510 pages, Hardcover

First published September 10, 1992

Reviews

[Marc Herbert · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a psych-history on the life of St. Ignatius. The history was great; the psychoanalysis was often laughable. Still, I learned alot about an important figure in Western history

[Vera · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a thick book; I felt exhausted reading my sample chapters of it because the 'psychoanalytic' interpretation was too tedious a perspective on certainly one of the most influential spiritual minds of Western civilization.