* * * The Family Crisis Translation from Greek by Rev. Serban Tica Published 2011 This book is a miscellany of articles dedicated to the contemporary family issues, written by prominent personalities of Orthodox Greece, such as archim. Philotheos Faros, archim. Makarios Griniezakis (a specialist in bioethics and the official preacher of the archdiocese of Crete), rev. Vasilios Thermos (a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy, the author of numerous books on Orthodox psychotherapy), rev. Stamatis Skliris (a doctor, iconographer and reputable specialist in Byzantine iconography), the psychiatrist-psychotherapist Matthaios Iosafat. Today’s parents hold various degrees, boast many achievements, however they fail to handle the essential aspects of life… Shouting, arguments, estrangement, insecurity, fear, selfishness, sourness, irritability, all of them resulting in hatred and malice. A precipice-deep gap, since one of the parents sleeps in the living room and the other in the bedroom, each wrapped in their own guilt and desires. What about their children? Deeply wounded, the children break windows, drink and take drugs during the day, while at night they tremble in fear of darkness. They need to have a light on in their room in order to fall asleep, for the vigil lamp has long been extinct. Orphan children, whose parents are still alive. The money initially spent on parties, trips, holidays, clothing, are now spent on lawyers’ fees and trial costs, on child maintenance – and, worst of all, all this has started from the classical scene mimicking the films: “I cannot live without you, I love you, my life…” (Archim. Andreas Konakos) Format: 13x20 cm; 224 p. ISBN: 978-973-136-253-3 “Orthodox Psychotherapy” «« back