Secrets

by Paul Tournier, Joe Embry (Translator)

Secrets

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Faith, Christianity

63 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1976

About the author

Paul Tournier was a Swiss physician and author who had acquired a worldwide audience for his work in pastoral counselling. His ideas had a significant impact on the spiritual and psychosocial aspects of routine patient care, and he had been called the twentieth century's most famous Christian physician.

Reviews

[Bec · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting premise, not sure I agree with the conclusion.

[Covenant Presbyterian Springfield Ohio]

Call Number: 155.6 TOU-6

Available.

[Christine Nabil · Rating 4 out of 5]

أنا قرأت الترجمة العربية للكتاب ده وهو مفيد جدا جدا لتوعية الأباء والأمهات لأهمية أن يكون للطفل والمراهق أسراره الخاصة به وقد إيه ده بيساعد في بناء أو هدم شخصيتهم وإستقلاليتهم

[Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

This small book, adapted from a lecture given in 1963 addresses the function of secrets in the three levels of formation of the person. Very interesting.

[Rose Stubblefield · Rating 5 out of 5]

Starts with a simple and relatable story about a little girl and her mother and the significance of secrets in our relationships. He talks about parents who get irritated about their children keeping secrets and then says: "It is somewhat in the hope of opening their eyes that I am writing this book." People often wonder why they pray certain things to God even though He knows everything already. I really liked Tournier's answer to this on page 58 (don't want to spoil it...). He starts this short book small but ends big, with the knowledge of God. [The version I read was translated by Joe Embry and ends on p. 63.]

[Martha Highfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Swiss psychiatrists explains the role of secrets in developing individuation and then personhood by sharing those secrets with confidante's and finally with God. To me he seems the early version of Jordan Peterson.

This book is highly readable, a manageable <100 pages, and an adapted lecture. Written in the 1960s before the era of so much pharmaco-psychological management, I began to wonder if we have not lost much alongside that gain.