Vincent Niemann reads from "Orthodox Psychotherapy", a book by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos of Naupaktos. The term "Orthodox Psychotherapy" does not refer to specific cases of people suffering from the psychological problems of some neurosis. Rather it refers to all people. According to Orthodox Tradition, after Adam's fall man became ill, and his "nous" was darkened and it lost communion with God. Death entered into the person's being and caused many anthropological, social, even ecological problems. In the tragedy of his fall man maintained the image of God within him but lost the likeness of God because his communion with God was disrupted. However the incarnation of Christ and the work of the Church aim at enabling the person to attain to the likeness of God, that is to reestablish communion with God. This passageway from a fallen state to a divinized state is actually the healing of the person, because it is connected with his return from a state of being contrary to nature, to that of a state that is according to nature and even above nature. By adhering to Orthodox therapeutic treatment as conceived by the Holy Fathers of the Church man can cope successfully with his thoughts (logismoi) and thus solve his problems completely and comprehensively.
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