Spiritual directors are not acting as psychologists, nor are they acting as confessors. The same issues of transference that psychologists are trained to face could easily come up in direction, though, and bad actors could easily manipulate them to their own ends. 3/3

Spiritual directors are not acting as psychologists, nor are they acting as confessors. The same issues of transference that psychologists are trained to face could easily come up in direction, though, and bad actors could easily manipulate them to their own ends. 3/3

— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 22, 2020

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