Die Seelenburg von Teresa von Avila und ihre Bedeutung für die Psychotherapie

Abstract

Teresa’s „castle of the soul“ is one of the most elaborated models of contemplative development from the Christian tradition. It still offers for modern men living in the present time an incomparable fundus of precious descriptions and instructions for the problems and crisis on the path of illumination. In this article each of the seven stages is characterized, pointed out by some original descriptions by Teresa and connected with problems of modern psychotherapy