Dynamis of Healing
Patristic Theology and the Psyche
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The Dynamis of Healing engages in the urgent work of building bridges between patristic thought and depth psychology, which facilitate the dialogue between the two vocabularies. She seems to me having captured a critical vein of patristic thought by attempting to attribute human nature its own wealth. Chaudhari highlights the basic optimism inherent in Orthodox theology and justifies psychotherapy within that framework, not only as an empirical way for regaining psychic balance and serenity, but also as a human means of attaining liberation from distorted psychic faculties and blossoming, potentially in Christ, and thus ‘paving His way.’---Rev. Vasileios Thermos, MD, PhD, Graduate Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens, Greece
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
