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In another work the same professor says: “The patristic tradition is neither a social philosophy nor an ethical system, nor is it religious dogmatism: it is a therapeutic treatment. In this respect it closely resembles medicine, especially psychiatry. The noetic faculty of the soul that prays unceasingly in the heart is a physiological instrument which everyone has and which requires healing. Neither philosophy nor any of the known positive or social sciences is capable of curing this instrument. That can only be done through the Fathers’ neptic and ascetic teaching. Therefore those who are not cured usually do not even know of the existence of this instrument.

Orthodox Psychotherapy, The Science of the Fathers
Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Ierotheos