“Your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don’t go there alone,” explains Augusten Burroughs in Dry, his memoir about overcoming alcoholism. While therapy and coaching certainly makes braving “unsafe neighborhood” in our head easier, it can only go so far. It’s not like our therapist can actually climb inside our brain and evict all the bad guys. We can begin making the dangerous places in our mind safe again by choosing the right daily activities.
The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World
Michaela Chung
Category: PSYCHOTHERAPY
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Many psychiatrists recognize the fact that these medications are only adjuvants whose greatest value is to make the patient amenable to therapies based on psychological interventions, but such therapies are seldom used, while the medicinal approach is rarely crowned with success. One knows that psychoanalysis, one of the most elaborate forms of therapy currently available, rarely cures those afflicted with psychoses, and only attains to limited success with neuroses.
Mental Disorders & Spiritual Healing: Teachings from the Early Christian East
Jean-Claude Larchet -
The Life of St Theodosius provides us with an example of this. Some monks had turned from the right path by the practice of an aberrant and badly understood form of asceticism and above all in these efforts had placed their confidence in themselves rather than God. As a result they were overcome with psychic difficulties through the activity of Satan. St Theodosius welcomed them into his monastery to care for them. St Theodore of Petra provides us with a similar case:
A number of men in the mountains and in the caves had not led the struggle for a Christian life according to Christ, and, for having practiced a rash form of asceticism with great zeal, were pierced through by the sword of pride. They had attributed their ascetic activities to their own strength and had forgotten that our Lord had said: Without me, you can do nothing (John 15:5). Because of this wasting of the flesh, or having in some way fallen under the judgment of God which surpasses understanding, they were delivered up to Satan, and because of their deranged minds they could no longer control their thoughts.
Mental Disorders & Spiritual Healing: Teachings from the Early Christian East
Jean-Claude Larchet
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