The Art of Confession | Paul Wilkes

Liberating confession from the confessional, "The Art of Confession" draws on traditions as old as ancient Greece and as modern as psychoanalysis, as diverse as Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam, to show readers how to incorporate a confessional practice into their daily lives. There are visualizations, spiritual exercises, prompts, and meditations; private confessions, direct confessions, psychological confessions. Accompanied throughout by a wise "confessional chorus" - a rabbi, a priest, a psychiatrist, a nun, whose points-of-view complement and augment the text - "The Art of Confession" is an antidote to our age of oversharing, where we happily broadcast "There are insights here I will be incorporating into my own life". (Rabbi Harold Kushner, author, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People"). An authentic tool for selfawareness the minutest details of our lives in public, yet never find the time to discover the risk, relief, and ultimately the renewal that real, considered self-reflection offers.