Mental Disorders and Spiritual Healing: Teachings from the Early Christian East

by Jean-Claude Larchet

Book Overview

This work, the third panel of a triptych dedicated by the author to the notion of illness derived from the patristic and hagiographic texts of the Christian East from the first to the fourteenth centuries, makes an essential contribution to the history of mental illnesses and their therapies in a domain very little studied until now. Confronted by the numerous problems still posed today in understanding these illnesses, their treatment, and their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597310611
• ISBN13: 9781597310611
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Angelico Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"