Mystical Healing: The Psychological and Spiritual Power of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises

Mystical Healing: The Psychological and Spiritual Power of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises by John Horn, S. J.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780824515829.

Long before there was Freud, there was the brilliant Doctor of the Soul, Ignatius Loyola. Mystical Healing is an in-depth analysis of his famous exercises at work. The Spiritual Exercises are a type of map of the human heart and therefore a trustworthy guide to follow in prayer. Through the use of case studies, Fr. Horn shows the Exercises to be as useful and cogent today as they were four hundred years ago. With each individual study there is a penetrating theological and spiritual-psychological analysis of the person, the process, and the wooing of the Spirit. This is a rare blend of the experiential and the theoretical as Ignatian prayer is illuminated and taught.