Sister Mary Wolff-Salin is a Jungian psychoanalyst who has published books on connections between Jungian thought and spirituality or community life. She lives in the community of the Hermitage of the Advent in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Rituals of initiation are largely missing in our society. The
?Peter Pan' syndrome prevails in many young adults. This study of
the initiation process in monastic formation and in Jungian
Training fulfills a need to explore this gap. And the contrast of
the two forms of initiation is a fascinating study.Fr. Timothy
Joyce, O.S.B., Glastonbury Abbey
Sr. Wolff-Salin provides a text valuable to vowed religious seeking
a better psychological understanding of their life and a text for
the analytical therapist willing to see some connection between
their training and specific religious experience. Similarly, she
provides a readable text for the general reader with some interest
in initiatory experience.Catholic Books Review
In this well-documented and clearly articulated text, Wolff-Salin
engages the reader in reflection on the elements and nature of true
initiatory experiences. Drawing on insights from Jungian
psychoanalysis and her own monastic experiences the author
skillfully discusses elements common to the initiatory stages of
monastic life and the training of Jungian psychoanalysts. She leads
the reader through the classical stages of initiation (i.e.,
separation, liminality, and entrance into a community), thus
enabling reflection on various forms of initiation, both monastic
and non-monastic, as aids to a transformation of life as an opening
on one's existence ?into the abyss of God?Rosemary Rader, O.S.B.,
Past-president of the American Benedictine Academy
A delightful and enjoyable book.Journal of Analytical Psychology
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