Avdeev, Dmitri, dr. Irritability with children and teenagers Translated from Russian by Adrian Tanasescu-Vlas Christian anthropology sees the integrity of one’s personality in the unity of spirit, soul and body manifestations – a unity that can only be achieved provided that the spiritual influence is dominant. Any illness has firstly a spiritual nature, and only secondly a psycho-physiological one. The spiritual approach does not undermine the medical – biological perspective on the sick person, but it enriches, completes and perfects the conception on personality. The Church regards the psychic condition as one of the manifestations of the general harm caused by sin to the human nature. By distinguishing between the levels of spirit, soul and body in the structure of personality, the Holy Fathers distinguished the “natural” diseases from those caused by demonic action or the sins that enslave people. According to this distinction, it is equally wrong to consider all psychic diseases as manifestations of demonic possession - which entails ill-founded exorcisms – and to attempt to treat any spiritual disorders exclusively by clinical methods… Format: 11 x 20 cm, 184 p. ISBN: 978-973-136-105-5 “Orthodox Psychotherapy” «« back