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ISBN
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1597310611
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EAN
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9781597310611
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Manufacturer
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Angelico Press
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Brand
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Angelico Press
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Binding
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TC
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Item Weight
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0.93
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Item Height
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0.56
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Publication Year
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2005
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Hardcover
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Language
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English
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Book Title
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Mental Disorders and Spiritual Healing : Teachings from the Early Christian East
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Original Language
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French
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Publisher
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Perennis, Sophia
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Genre
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Body, Mind & Spirit, Psychology, Medical
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Item Length
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9 in
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Topic
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Psychopathology / General, Psychiatry / General, Healing / Prayer & Spiritual
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Item Width
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6 in
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Number of Pages
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180 Pages
Mental Disorders and Spiritual Healing: Teachings from the Early Christian East
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Perennis, Sophia
ISBN-10
1597310611
ISBN-13
9781597310611
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46897115
Product Key Features
Original Language
French
Book Title
Mental Disorders and Spiritual Healing : Teachings from the Early Christian East
Number of Pages
180 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychopathology / General, Psychiatry / General, Healing / Prayer & Spiritual
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Psychology, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-015423
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
616.89/14
Synopsis
This work, the third panel of a triptych dedicated by the author to the notion of illness derived from the patristic and hagiographic texts of the Christian East from the first to the fourteenth centuries, makes an essential contribution to the history of mental illnesses and their therapies in a domain very little studied until now. Confronted by the numerous problems still posed today in understanding these illnesses, their treatment, and their relationship to those who are sick, he shows the importance offered for reflection and current practice by early Christian thought and experience. After indicating how the Fathers understood the psyche and its relationship with body and spirit, the author gives a detailed analysis of the different causes they attribute to mental illness and the various treatments recommended. At the same time he shows how, relying on fundamental Christian values, they manifest a constant solicitude and respect for the sick, and how they are at pains to integrate them into community life and have them participate in their own healing, foreshadowing in this way the needs and aspirations of our own time. The last part discloses the deep significance of one of the strangest and most fascinating forms of asceticism the Christian East has known: ‘folly for the sake of Christ’, a madness feigned with the goal of attaining a high degree of humility, but also a way well-suited, through a close experience of their condition, to help those who are often among, today as in the past, the most destitute. Jean-Claude Larchet is docteur d s lettres et sciences humaines, docteur en th ologie, and docteur d’ tat en philosophie. The author of Th rapeutique des maladies spirituelles (Paris: Editions de l’Ancre, 1991) and The Theology of Illness (Crestwood, New York: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002), he is a specialist in questions of health, sickness, and healing. He is today one of the foremost St Maximus the Confessor specialists.
LC Classification Number
RC455.4.R4L3713 2005
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