Phases: Crisis and Development in the Individual

by Bernard Lievegoed

Book Overview

With this bestselling book, Bernard Lievegoe d describes each period of life - adolescence, the twenties, thirties, forties, etc. - and looks at the inner qualities and challenges that each stage... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854403531
• ISBN13: 9780854403530
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Pr
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A Practical Spiritual Guide for Life's Challenges

I read this book quite a few years ago and find that I turn to it again and again to fathom what it is I am going through at a particular time in my life. Lievegood invariably describes it dead-on and gives real advice about how to meet the challenge consciously and successfully. I was impressed by his saying that some life crises cannot be avoided; they belong to the path of life and are meant to be gone through. But there is a way to go through them. What an empowering book!

A concise introduction to the notion of phases of life

This is a concise and very useful introduction to the notion of the biological, psychological, and spiritual phases of life. The treatement is literate and learned and the author provides a useful review of the key ideas of some of the major thinkers, ancient and modern in this area of thinking about life. It is especially useful for an introduction and overview because he has accomplished these things with concision. But it is writen to an educated audience which will not be reading about psychoanalysis, empiricism, behaviorism, and so on for the first time. The only reason I gave this book a four vice five star rating is because the translation from the Dutch is a little lacking in some places.