Pia Sophia Chaudhari 
Dynamis of Healing 
Patristic Theology and the Psyche

This book explores how traces of the energies and dynamics of Orthodox Christian theology and anthropology may be observed in the clinical work of depth psychology. Looking to theology to express its own religious truths and to psychology to see whether these truth claims show up in healing modalities, the author creatively engages both disciplines in order to highlight the possibilities for healing contained therein.
Dynamis of Healing elucidates how theology and psychology are by no means fundamentally at odds with each other but rather can work together in a beautiful and powerful synergia to address both the deepest needs and deepest desires of the human person for healing and flourishing.

Table of Content

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

About the author

Aristotle Papanikolaou is Professor of Theology, the Archbishop Demetrios Chair of Orthodox Theology and Culture, and the Co-Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is the author of Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion, and The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy.