Product Description: Paul Tournier has practised medicine in Geneva since 1928, as a physician who acquired psychiatric training and experience because he learned that many of his patients needed help going deeper than drugs or surgery. Many of his books are in paperback editions, including A Doctor's Casebook in the Light of the Bible, The Meaning of Persons, Escape from Loneliness, The Strong and the Weak, The Person Reborn and A Place for You...read more

Product Description: Among the tributes to The Meaning of Persons were those in Theology ('Rich in experience . . . most helpful and stimulating'); in The Social Service Quarterly (`Sincerity, honesty and experience . . . the reviewing of this book has led to my having a spiritual experiehce'); and in Mental Health (`Of rare quality ...read more

Product Description: Paul Tournier has practised medicine in Geneva since 1928, as a physician who acquired psychiatric training and experience because he learned that many of his patients needed help going deeper than drugs or surgery. Many of his books are in paperback editions, including The Adventure of Living, Escape from Loneliness, Learning to Grow Old, Marriage Difficulties, The Meaning of Persons, The Person Reborn, A Place for You and The Strong and the Weak...read more

The Adventure of Living charts and exciting life's course, with fresh miracles and new freedoms, for the mature Christian.

Our Western civilization is masculine and dominated by masculine values: cold objectivity, reason, power, efficiency and competition. This means the suppression of other values in the sphere of irrationality and subjectivity: sentiments, emotions, personal relationships. It is no coincidence that women have been rejected from public life and culture and relegated all too often to the home. This situation has given rise to the enormous contrast between the great powers of science and technology and the decline in the quality of life. Men are interested in things and mechanisms, women in people. Men have constructed a world of things in which people suffer, believing themselves manipulated like one more machine. Paul Tournier argues that this is a situation in which women can make a decisive contribution. For a century they have struggled to take their places in civilization. In order to do so however, they have had to adapt to fit a masculine society. They have proved capable of that, but could they not go on from there to cure our civilization of its malaise and introduce what is missing, a sense of the person? This is the question asked by this book. As in Dr Tournier's previous books, it is not raised in a theoretical way but concretely, through his own experiences, in his personal life, in his marriage and his long career as a counsellor during which he has heard so many confidences about feminine discontent.

Product Description: En el camino de la vida hay dos recodos fundamentales: el paso de la infancia a la edad adulta y el de la edad adulta a la vejez. La jubilación puede ser una meta deseable o un fantasma aterrador. La vejez puede ser la mejor etapa con la fe como base.

Product Description: "When we talk of marriage counseling we think immediately of the extreme cases, of threats to seek divorce, of couples in violent disputes who frequently come to blows," Paul Tournier states. But there are many other couples whose marriages are no less a failure...read more

Product Description: Dr. Tournier shares his discoveries about accepting suffering, practicing quiet meditation in marriage, discovering God through personal encounters, entering into the new adventure of growing older, and more.

The Swiss physician and psychiatrist views a patient as a person whose personal problems are contributing factors to physical illness

Recommends methods of coping with grief, anger, frustration, and sorrow through the teachings of Christianity and discusses how suffering can contribute to the development of maturity

Product Description: A Swiss psychiatrist explains his conception of the human personality

A Swiss physician and lay theologian suggests practical cures for loneliness based on a spirit of fellowship that rejects what he considers to be a widespread false belief in individualism

Case histories illustrate an examination of the process of overcoming personal anxieties and fears through greater self-understanding and acceptance of psychic and spiritual strengths

Product Description: No one has the right to equate Christianity with weakness or to imagine that the Bible teaches us always to surrender. The biblical message proclaims the sovereign greatness of God which transcends all lesser principles or standards which we might wish to draw from it...read more