TY - JOUR TI - Towards an integral ripening to the priesthood – identifying the threats AU - Rybarski, Radosław TI - Towards an integral ripening to the priesthood – identifying the threats AB - The issues related to the formation of candidates for the priesthood and the permanent formation of priests are still topical and probably will not cease to be so. The lack of internal integration of the person called is the cause of priestly crises, which affect not only the spiritual but also the emotional-cognitive, relational and even somatic sphere. The problems of the following article focus on some of the causes that hinder the process of personality integration. In order to search for these causes, the context of the psychological functioning of priests was presented, the tendencies revealed in the attitude to psychological examinations in the seminary in alumni, which indicate numerous dissimulations. Incorrect (inconsistent with the truth) self-perception becomes the cause of compensatory behavior, which, in time, can become the cause of crises, diseases or mental disorders. VL - 2022 - Volume XXVI IS - Issue 2 (43) PY - 2022 SN - 2543-5442 C1 - 2544-3283 SP - 73 EP - 86 DO - 10.4467/25443283SYM.22.013.17381 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/sympozjum/article/ku-integralnemu-dojrzewaniu-do-kaplanstwa-identyfikacja-zagrozen