Mental disorders and spiritual healing
Subtitle: teachings from the early Christian east
By: Jean-Claude Larchet ; translated by G. John Champoux, Rama P. Coomaraswamy.
Edition: 1st English ed.
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Mental illness -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church; Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church; Spiritual healing -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Psychiatry and religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Anthropological background : the human composite; title: Body and soul; title: Spirit, soul, and body; title: Insanity due to somatic problems; title: Insanity of demonic origin; title: Forms and causes; title: Christian attitudes; title: Treatment; title: Insanity of spiritual origin; title: Mental and spiritual illness; title: The nosology of sadness; title: First cause : the frustration of desires; title: Second cause : anger; title: Unmotivated sadness; title: Demonic activity; title: The nosology of acedia; title: Treating sadness; title: Treating acedia; title: A most singular kind of folly; title: The fool for Christ; title: The fool for Christ, the illiterate; title: The simple and the innocent; title: A simulated folly; title: Scriptural foundations; title: First motive : humility; title: Second motive : detachment from this world; title: Solitude; title: The status of stranger; title: Poverty; title: Third motive : charity; title: Spiritual presuppositions of foolishness for Christ; title: A call from God or a personal vocation approved by God; title: An already highly accomplished spiritual life.