Psychology from the Heart: The Spiritual Depth of Clinical Psychology

Texts that speak to the spiritual depth of life, collected from the writings of Raymond Lloyd Richmond, Ph.D.

Psychology has too often been preoccupied with the pursuit of happiness, and it has missed the point about helping individuals understand life and find a personally meaningful--and practical--sense of direction. Psychology itself cannot offer any meaning to life, but it can help individuals disentangle themselves from the snare of illusory social identifications that keep us trapped in spiritual blindness and pull us backwards into self-destruction. I can offer no "proof" of God, nor can I prove that spirituality is anything more than a figment of our imaginations. But look at it this way: If you value spirituality, what do you have to lose? Mediocrity. What do you have to gain? Everything.
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Includes chapters on: Anger | Competition | Culture | Depression | Despair | Evil | Family | Fear | Forgiveness | Guilt | Hate | Healing | Honesty | Hope | Humility | Identity | Love | Mercy | Peace | Prayer | Pride | Romance and Eroticism | Self-sabotage | Sin | Sorrow | Spirituality | Spiritual Growth | Suffering | Suicide | Trauma | Trust | The Unconscious | Victimization