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Re: "Grow Spiritually"?
A.Quest, Ph.D. · 07/26/00 at 9:28 PM ET
Can anyone define what "grow spiritually" means? I hear this more and mroe these days as words spoken by fellow therapists and I have not the foggiest notion what they are taling about. This was never taught in my graduate training in scientific psychology and it did not appear on my psychology licensing exam or anywhere in the prep course. Even therapists who are not purporting to push a religious point of view now talk this way very often, and I wonder what they are talking about if it is not about becoming more comitted to a particular religion's set of assumptions about human existence. Is it a pan-religious attitude that one fosters in "helping people grow spiritually"? Why would a psychotherapist or sex therapist be interested in this? Is it a moral outlook? If it is a moral outlook, what are the moral presuppostions that are being taught in "spiritual growth"? Is there a limit to how much "spiritual growth" is good for a person? Can one grow too much just as one can become obese or grow a tumor? Or is there no limit? Whenever one "grows spiritually," what does that actually do to a person? What is the difference between growing emotionally, growing in intepersonal skill, growing in satisfaction with life, growing intellectually and cognitively and "growing spiritually"? Does one have to be committed to a religion to "grow spiritually" or can anybody do this? If anyone can do it, how does one do it if not through religion? Would anyone be willing to write a few paragraphs that try to specify and clarify what "grow spiritually" acutally does mean and what it has to do with psychothreapy or sex therapy?
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