A Guide to Orthodox Psychotherapy The Science, Theology, and Spiritual Practice Behind It and Its Clinical Applications by Archbishop Chrysostomos With an introduction by Bishop Auxentios • Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Oxford: University Press of America, 2006. $25.00 plus shipping and handling. Paperback, 153 pp. • ISBN 0–7618–3602–0.

• “This new volume from the pen of Archbishop Chrysostomos is perhaps the most sophisticated study in the applied psychology of religious experience to appear in a generation. In the context of the contemporary psychobabble of publications on ‘religion as therapy’ and ‘therapy as religion,’ this work stands out for its intellectual breadth, religious depth, and commitment to rigorous empirical standards of truth. This is one of those rare achievements in which an author’s gift to his religious tradition is as great as his gift to the scientific community.”

Martin S. Jaffee, Ph.D., Professor of Comparative Religion
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington

• “Archbishop Chrysostomos brings to this study of Orthodox psychotherapy impressive credentials as a psychologist and Orthodox clergyman. Nevertheless, his book is happily free of the needless complexities and neologisms that all too often discourage non-professional readers. He eschews as well the facile simplifications that would distort and dilute the importance of his topic. Thus, the serious reader has here an accessible, if challenging, introduction to a subject of expanding interest and importance. As this expansion proceeds, I confidently expect that A Guide to Orthodox Psychotherapy will deservedly become a classic in its field.”

Ernest Hargreaves Latham, Jr., Ph.D.
Coordinator for Romanian and Moldovan Area Studies
Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State

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