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Sin and suffering. Selected lectures on the basics of Orthodox psychotherapy

2015, 112 c.

According to the World Health Organization there are between 400 and 500 million people suffering from mental disorders in the world and this number is constantly increasing. The Church of Christ remains and will remain the only true clinic for the human soul. According to aforesaid it is very important to form the Christian attitude towards the origins, the course and the treatment of mental illnesses. The rampant growth of psychic disorders in our time it is the resulted not only from stresses and scientific and technical progress with its information overload, but also, from the departure of people from God, and their sinful life.

The author of this book prof.Dmitry Avdeev - Moscow psychiatrist, psychotherapist, clinical psychologist, PhD, professor, member of the Writers' Union of Russia. Since 1991 prof.Avdeev has worked towards the formation of the Christian attitude to mental diseases, the development of the model of orthodox psychotherapy. He delivers lectures in Russia and abroad, speaks at parishes, Sunday schools, advises in monastic hospitals, he is constantly engaged in the medical reception. Over the years of work he has consulted more than 37 000 people.

Prof.Dmitry Avdeev is the author and co-author more than 50 books and pamphlets published in the Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, English, Spanish and German languages. The general circulation of published books has exceeded 1.5 million copies.

The book «Sin and suffering. Selected lectures on the basics of Orthodox psychotherapy» presents five lectures, namely: «Psychotherapy», «Neuroses», «Main forms of neuroses», «Causes of mental diseases» and «Depression». The lectures were delivered during a period from 2008 to 2013. The book can be useful for clergy, doctors and psychologists, as well as for all those who are interested in the given issues

CONTENTS:

FOREWORD
Lecture № 1 PSYCHOTHERAPY;
Lecture № 2 NEUROSES;
Lecture № 3 MAIN FORMS OF NEUROSES;
Lecture № 4 CAUSES OF MENTAL ILLNESSES;
Lecture № 5 DEPRESSION;
THE HOLY FATHERS ABOUT PASSIONS AND VIRTUES;
INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS OF FORMING THE CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE TO MENTAL DISEASES;
THE MAIN BOOKS OF PROFESSOR DMITRY AVDEEV.

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Prof. Dmitry Avdeev,

M.D., Ph.D.

Sin and suffering. Selected lectures on the basics of Orthodox psychotherapy

2015, 112 c.