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Dear Visitors,
The main principle of the orthodox psychotherapy is: to
confess the Holy Orthodox Faith and to bring its saving
Truth and spiritual purity into the process of treatment.
Psychotherapists should deal with the soul of the patient
very carefully and even awesomely as every person is endowed
with the greatest gift of God—the immortal soul which
is the image of the Creator. For the last 7 years I am the
head of the Orthodox Psychotherapeutic Center and recently
also of an Institute for the Problems of Forming of a Christian
Attitude towards Mental Disorders.
Book Abstracts
"Depression as Passion and Malady"
The true cause for depressive disorders usually resides
in man's sins. The Holy Fathers believed that pride is at
the base of all spiritual sufferings. Many unfulfilled dreams
and the conflict between desire and reality always give
birth in the heart to the feeling of frustration, sadness,
grief and suffering.
That’s why in order to get rid of neurotic depression man
should strive himself to acquire meekness.
"Dialogue With An Orthodox Psychiatrist"
The only right way of healing of the spiritual illnesses
goes through the real Orthodox faith, through repentance
and living in accordance with God's commandments. It is
vital for man to be aware of the sinful roots of his illness,
to deeply realize his helplessness, to hate the devilishly
sins of pride, vain-gloriousness, anger, laziness, lie,
adultery, to want to change himself and to turn to God with
sincere repentance.
"Nervousness at Children and Teenagers"
Medical experience unfortunately proves that healthy and
harmonious grown up children are fewer with each day and
that, on the contrary, the number of children who are brought
to consultation because of nervousness, sleeping disorders,
nervous overworking and so on is increasingly. Through this
work I will try not only to touch a few medical and psychological
topics of this problem but I will also speak about the spiritual
causes of childrens nervousness.
"Nervousness"
The present book, written by russian orthodox psychotherapist,
intends to analyze from the spiritual perspective one of
the most urgent problems of our time: the problem of nervous
sufferings. Neuroses, stress maladies and other nervous
affections are disected? in this volume with the double
competence of the man of science and that of the faithful
armed with millenial experience of the spiritual therapy
of the Orthodox Church.
"When Soul is Sick"
In Chistian anthropology the entirety of personality is
seen in the unity of the spiritual and bodily manifestations.
Every illness has first a spiritual and after that a psycho-physiological
character. The spiritual approach of the sick doesn`t undermine
the medico-biological perspective but it enriches, completes
and perfects the view on personality
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Dr Dmitry Avdeev
M.D., Ph.D.
Director Institute of problems of forming
of a Christian attitude towards mental disorders and methods
of their treatment.
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