"SELF SPIRITUAL THERAPY” KRISTEN SUATU KAJIAN INTEGRATIF TEOLOGI SISTEMATIKA, PASTORAL KONSELING DAN EMOTIONAL SPIRITUAL QUOTIENT (ESQ).

Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Development

Recent studies of the emotional brain have opened new doors to the understanding of human behavior, character development, relationships, happiness and well being. Recent research has shown that the development of “emotional brain” is dependent on “relationship,” initially parent and child relations. Aside from an individual’s relation with the parents, the human mind has been engaged historica...

Spiritual Dryness in Non-Ordained Catholic Pastoral Workers

Background: We wondered whether “spiritual dryness” as a specific phase of “spiritual crisis” or insecurity is mostly a matter only of Catholic priests or can also be found in other pastoral professionals. Methods: In a cross-sectional survey, we measured the prevalence of spiritual dryness in non-ordained Catholic pastoral workers, and identified relevant predictors. Results: In a sample of 3....

Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Well-Being

Healing and Family Spiritual/Emotional Systems

Healing implies a view of wholeness. Working from Jesus' revelation of God on the cross as the self-giving love of Father (I), Son (Thou) and Holy Spirit (We), this article sees human wholeness as spiritual growth toward trinitarian love. Five stages of growth appear from salvation history: initial faith (trust), familial faith (conventional law morality), individuating faith (individually free...

The Spiritual Exercises and Psychoanalytic Therapy

A COMPARISON between the systems for the transformation of attitudes, feelings, and behaviour developed by two men so apparently disparate in outlook as St Ignatius of Loyola and Sigmund Freud might be expected to reveal nothing but contrasts. But we are so steeped in the, details of the religious and philosophical controversies of the last few centuries, that we are likely to overlook the comm...