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Pages: 370

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Yannis
Yeremtzes
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CONTENTS: Translator's Note
Preface to the english edition
Author's Prologue
Introduction

  1. CHAPTER ORTHODOXY AS A THERAPEUTIC SCIENCE
    1. What Christianity is
    2. Theology as a therapeutic science
    3. What therapy is
    4. Method of therapy - therapeutic treatment. How then is the soul cured?
  2. CHAPTER THE ORTHODOX THERAPIST
    1. Prerequisites for the role of priest therapist
      The value of the priesthood
      The calling and ordaining of the Apostles
      Basic prerequisites for ordination
      The three degrees of priesthood
    2. Rekindling the Spiritual Gift
      Basic qualities of priest therapists
    3. Spiritual Priesthood
    4. The search for Therapists
  3. CHAPTER ORTHODOX PSYCHOTHERAPY
    1. The soul (`psyche')
    2. What the soul is
      Sickness and dying of the soul
      Therapy of the soul
    3. Interrelations of soul, nous, heart and mind

    4. Nous and soul
      Nous and heart
      Nous and reason
      Nous and attention

    5. Nous, heart and thoughts
      1. The nous

      2. The natural life of the nous
        Sickness of the nous
        Curing the nous
      3. The heart
      4. What the heart is
        Characterisations of the heart
        Sickness of the heart
        Curing the heart
      5. Intelligence (logiki) and thoughts (logismoi)

      6. I. Intelligence
        II.Thoughts - Logismoi
        What logismoi are
        The cause of evil thoughts
        Consequences of evil thoughts
        Curing of evil thoughts
  4. CHAPTER ORTHODOX PATHOLOGY
    1. What the passions are
    2. Types of passions and their development
    3. Cure of the passions
    4. Dispassion
  5. CHAPTER HESYCHIA AS A METHOD OF HEALING
    1. Hesychia, or stillness
    2. Hesychasm
    3. Anti-hesychasm
  6. CHAPTER ORTHODOX EPISTEMOLOGY
    1. The three kinds of knowledge according to St. Isaac the Syrian
    2. Knowledge of God according to St. Gregory Palamas
    Prayers

    Index of persons
    Index of subjects

This book contains the important message that the church can heal an ailing personality. The term "Orthodox Psychotherapy" does not refer to specific cases of people suffering from psychological problems of neurosis. Rather it refers to all people. According to Orthodox Tradition, after Adam;s fall man became ill; his "nous" was darkened and lost communion with God. Death entered into the person's being and caused many anthropological, social, even ecological problems. In the tragedy of his fall man maintained the image of God within him but lost completely the the likeness of Him, since his communion with God was disrupted. However the incarnation of Christ and the work of the church aim at enabling the person to attain to the likeness of God, that is to reestablish communion with God. This passage way from a fallen state to divinization is called the healing of the person, because it is connected with his return from a state of being contrary to nature, to that of a state according to nature and above nature. By adhering to Orthodox therapeuthic treatment as conceived by the Holy Fathers of Church man can cope succesfully with his thoughts (logismoi) and thus solve his problems completely and comprehensively.

 

 

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