Dynamis of Healing - Patristic Theology and the Psyche

This book explores how traces of the energies and dynamics of Orthodox Christian theology and anthropology may be observed in the clinical work of depth psychology. Looking to theology to express its own religious truths and to psychology to see whether these truth claims show up in healing modalities, the author creatively engages both disciplines in order to highlight the possibilities for healing contained therein. Dynamis of Healing elucidates how theology and psychology are by no means fundamentally at odds with each other but rather can work together in a beautiful and powerful synergia to address both the deepest needs and deepest desires of the human person for healing and flourishing.

List of contents

Introduction | 1

1 Psyche and Creation: Initial Reflections on Orthodox Theology and Depth Psychology | 19

2 "That Which Is Not Assumed Is Not Healed" | 40

3 An Ontology of Healing? | 78

4 Eros: Healing Fire | 105

Conclusion | 149

Acknowledgments | 155

Notes | 157

Bibliography | 201

Index | 211

About the author

Pia Sophia Chaudhari

Product details

• Authors: Pia Sophia Chaudhari
• Assisted by: Aristotle Papanikolaou (Editor), Ashley M. Purpura (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780823284658
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8465-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought; Orthodox Christianity and Cont; Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought; Orthodox Christianity and Cont
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research