Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals

Every human journey is filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a loved one or end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments, or just an ongoing sense of dissatisfaction with life.

Society tends to view these dark nights in clinical terms as obstacles to be overcome as quickly as possible.

But Thomas Moore's extensive career as a psychologist and theologian has taught him that honoring these periods of fragility as periods of incubation and opportunities to delve the soul's deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life's meaning.