Article: The Dark Night of the Soul.(Book Review)

The Dark Night of the Soul. By Gerald May. HarperCollins, 224 pp., $23.95.

SAINTS SUCH AS the 16th-century Carmelites Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross have become guardians of others across time--certainly so for the American psychiatrist Gerald May, who takes to heart their remarks and their mariner of engaging a religion they dared regard with unstinting attention and with the blunt honesty love can prompt. May's book is a thankful acknowledgment of assistance received; it beckons readers to connect in mind, heart and soul with the, se two writer-saints.

Especially noteworthy is May's unwillingness to call upon today's psychological language to ...

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