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“In favour of a pastoral of moral life”In the years animated by the spirit of Vatican II, the Jesuit-psychoanalyst Louis Beirnaert brings us a pastoral of moral life that does not simply repeat well-known prohibitions. He feels that a deeper assessment of the act, with the help of innovations made by the human sciences, is essential if we are to avoid confining pastors by obliging them to “adapt” oft-rejected normative guidelines to different places and situations. “The Practice of spiritual guidance and psychoanalysis”Beirnaert investigates two specific aspects of the link between psychoanalysis and spiritual guidance. Firstly the training of the accompanying party in psychology and/or in psychoanalysis and secondly, the complex cases of analysands who simultaneously benefit from spiritual accompaniment. For the first, he envisages basic training in the fundamental notions, though not to the point of demanding psychoanalysis from the accompanist. For the second, he gives suggestions to avoid the main traps of this type of accompaniment.