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Secular Psychotherapy and the Therapeutic Method of the Orthodox Church

Is secular “psychotherapy” compatible with the principles and the anthropology of the Orthodox Church?

An interview with Dr Jean Claude Larchet (*), University Professor who holds a doctorate in the Humanities, and has studied Psychopathology, Philosophy and the Eastern Church Fathers, and has also had clinical experience in psychiatric hospitals.
This is a transcribed excerpt from “Radio-Paraga”, a program on the official radio station of the Church of Greece. It was broadcast on Sunday, 6 February 2000, under the title: “Is Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy a Science?”. The program was presented by Father Konstantinos Stratigopoulos.

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Four in ten 11-year-olds have seen their parents break up: Modern youngsters four times as likely to see family collapse as those in the 1960s

  • 20% of children born in year 2000 were not living with both parents by 11
  • Ease of divorce and lack of shame felt by couples who separate is blamed
  • Around 92% of those born to married couples were still living with parents
  • But for those cohabiting proportion was only 55%, according to research
  • Study also found 1 in 7 had been through more than one family break-up 

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