Psychosexual Integration and Celibate Maturity: Handbook for Religious and Priestly Formation (In 2 Volumes)

The two volumes are meant to be a handbook for religious and priestly formation especially in the context of the present-day environment that is dominated by materialism, consumerism and the media. They present information, insights and case illustrations to throw light on the link between spirituality and psychology where sexuality and the emotions relating to it are concerned. They are concerned with the basic physiology and biology of sex, defining and describing emotions relating to it, emotional maturity, psychosexual development and aspects of celibate integration like celibate friendship and celibate spirituality. Psychologists, lawyers, spiritualists and others here discuss aspects relating to the theme like sexual abuse and violations of the boundary, the formation environment, characteristics of effective formators and the civil and ecclesiastical law relating to it. They present a number of questions as well as exercises to help readers better understand the topics studied.