The Synod recognizes the need to promote an integral accompaniment, in which the spiritual aspects are well integrated with the human and the social.As Pope Francis explains, “spiritual discernmentdoes not exclude existential, psychological, sociological or moral insights drawn from the human sciences. At the same time, it transcends them” (Gaudete et Exsultate, 170). It is a question of absorbing all these elements dynamically, respecting different spiritualities and cultures, without exclusion and without confusion. Psychological or psychotherapeutic accompaniment, as long as it is open to transcendence, can prove fundamental for a journey of integration of the personality, and it can reopen to the possibility of vocational growth certain aspects of the personality that are closed or blocked. Young people live all the richness and fragility of being an “open book”. Psychological assistance could not only help them patiently to relive their personal history, but also to reopen questions so as to help them arrive at a more stable affective equilibrium.
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