Orthodox Psychotherapy
9 best books like Orthodox Psychotherapy (Hierotheos Vlachos): The Shadow of the Torturer, Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, Unseen Warfare, On the Divine Images, The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality, Wounded by Love, The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text, The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
The Shadow of the Torturer
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0671540661 |
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".
You can rarely trust the...
Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence
| Author | David Keirsey |
| ISBN | 1885705026 |
Phenomenon: Keirsey and Bates's Please Understand Me, first published in 1978, sold nearly 2 million copies in its first 20 years, becoming a perennial best seller all over the world. Advertised only by word of mouth, the book became a favorite training and counseling guide in many institutions --...
| Author | Ted Chiang |
| ISBN | 1596061006 |
In medieval Baghdad, a penniless man is brought before the most powerful man in the world, the caliph himself, to tell his story. It begins with a walk in the bazaar, but soon grows into a tale unlike any other told in the caliph's empire. It's a story that includes not just buried treasure and a band of thieves,...
| Author | Nicodemos the Hagiorite |
| ISBN | 0913836524 |
This spiritual classic was written by Lorenzo Scupoli, a sixteenth-century Venetian priest. Immensely popular in its own day, it was ranked by Francis de Sales with the Imitation of Christ. In the general rapport between Western and Eastern Christendom, it reached Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain,...
| Author | John of Damascus |
| ISBN | 0913836621 |
ON THE DIVINE IMAGES is a series of apologies written by St John of Damascus in the 8th century against the iconoclasm begun by Byzantine emperor Leo III. The writer was safe from persecution in the monastery of St Sabbas in Palestine, outside of the Byzantine empire, and the destruction of images by his...
The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
| Author | Kyriacos C. Markides |
| ISBN | 0385500920 |
An acclaimed expert in Christian mysticism travels to a monastery high in the Trodos Mountains of Cyprus and offers a fascinating look at the Greek Orthodox approach to spirituality that will appeal to readers of Carlos Castaneda.
In an engaging combination of dialogues, reflections,...
| Author | Elder Porphyrios |
| ISBN | 9607201191 |
Life changing. Read this book.
I can't decide what moved me more; his life story or his teachings,
both had such simplicity, divine grace, humility and wisdom.
Favorite quotes:
"One thing is our aim — love for Christ, for the Church, for our neighbour. Love, worship...
The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text
| Author | G.E.H. Palmer |
| ISBN | 0571130135 |
The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence in the recent...
The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
| Author | Dionysios Farasiotis |
| ISBN | 1887904166 |
This powerful memoir tells the story of a Greek youth who, out of a desire to know the truth empirically, began to experiment in yoga, hypnotism, and various occult techniques. Eventually drawn back to the Faith of his forefathers Orthodox Christianity he visited the ancient monastic republic of Mount...
