The aim of this important and practical book is to help the confessor and spiritual director towards a deeper understanding of the whole field of human psychology-from the completely unbalanced individual to the psychopath and the victim of neurosis. The author is an Austrian Benedictine with a wide knowledge of empirical psychology and psychotherapy and considerable pastoral experience.
The book falls into three main divisions. Part I: the psychological aspects of the threefold way to
perfection. Part II: the various types of souls according to sex, age, temperament and character,
calling and environment. Part III: Psychopathology and the index and glossary of technical terms.