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Orthodox psychotherapy (The science of the Fathers)
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translated by Esther Williams
translated by Esther Williams
Publication Data: Levadia, Greece: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, 2006
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 380
Dimensions (l × w × h): 23.5 cm × 16.1 cm × 2.5 cm
ISBN: 960‒7070‒27‒5
Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos
translated by Esther Williams
“Much is being said today about psychological problems. I believe that the so-called psychological problems are mainly problems of thoughts, a darkened mind, and an impure heart. The impure heart as described by the Fathers, the dark and gloomy mind and impure thoughts are the source of all the so-called psychological problems. When a man is inwardly healed, when he has discovered the place of his heart, when he has purified the noetic part of his soul and freed his intelligence, he has no psychological problems. He lives in the blessed and undisturbed peace of Christ.”
—“Introduction”
CONTENTS
Translator’s Note
Preface to the English edition
Author’s Prologue
Introduction
1. 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. 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. Orthodox psychotherapy
1. The Soul (‘Psyche’)
What the soul is
Sickness and dying of the soul
Therapy of the soul
2. Interrelations of soul, nous, heart and mind
Nous and soul
Nous and heart
Nous and reason
Nous and attention
3. Nous, heart and thoughts
a) The nous
The natural life of the nous
Sickness of the nous
Healing of the nous
b) The Heart
What the heart is
Characterisations of the heart
Sickness of the heart
Curing of the heart
c) Intelligence (logiki) and thoughts (logismoi)
I. Intelligence
II. Thoughts - Logismoi
What logismoi are
The cause of evil thoughts
Consequences of evil thoughts
Curing of evil thoughts
4. Orthodox Pathology
1. What the Passions are
2. Types of Passions and their Development
3. Cure of the Passions
4. Dispassion
5. Hesychia as a Method of Healing
1. Hesychia (Stillness)
2. Hesychasm
3. Anti-hesychasm
6. 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
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 380
Dimensions (l × w × h): 23.5 cm × 16.1 cm × 2.5 cm
ISBN: 960‒7070‒27‒5
Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos
translated by Esther Williams
“Much is being said today about psychological problems. I believe that the so-called psychological problems are mainly problems of thoughts, a darkened mind, and an impure heart. The impure heart as described by the Fathers, the dark and gloomy mind and impure thoughts are the source of all the so-called psychological problems. When a man is inwardly healed, when he has discovered the place of his heart, when he has purified the noetic part of his soul and freed his intelligence, he has no psychological problems. He lives in the blessed and undisturbed peace of Christ.”
—“Introduction”
CONTENTS
Translator’s Note
Preface to the English edition
Author’s Prologue
Introduction
1. 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. 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. Orthodox psychotherapy
1. The Soul (‘Psyche’)
What the soul is
Sickness and dying of the soul
Therapy of the soul
2. Interrelations of soul, nous, heart and mind
Nous and soul
Nous and heart
Nous and reason
Nous and attention
3. Nous, heart and thoughts
a) The nous
The natural life of the nous
Sickness of the nous
Healing of the nous
b) The Heart
What the heart is
Characterisations of the heart
Sickness of the heart
Curing of the heart
c) Intelligence (logiki) and thoughts (logismoi)
I. Intelligence
II. Thoughts - Logismoi
What logismoi are
The cause of evil thoughts
Consequences of evil thoughts
Curing of evil thoughts
4. Orthodox Pathology
1. What the Passions are
2. Types of Passions and their Development
3. Cure of the Passions
4. Dispassion
5. Hesychia as a Method of Healing
1. Hesychia (Stillness)
2. Hesychasm
3. Anti-hesychasm
6. 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
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