Man and His Place

Environment plays an important role in human life. Frustrated by the place he is attached to, man suffers from a wanderer complex; he searches everywhere for the right place, but is unable to integrate into any of them. One of the therapist's tasks is to help him with this integration. But man must also be predisposed to detach himself from his place and connect with new experiences, because life is always a forward march, always a rhythm between receiving and giving, between enrichment and denunciation, between self-affirmation and surrender... This is how psychology and faith can unite, corresponding to these two successive stages.

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