Bolile psihice şi psihoterapia de responsabilizare în viziunea părintelui Filothei Faros sau riscul de a iubi în psihoterapie
Mental illnesses and accountability psychotherapy in Father Filothei Faros’ view or the risk of loving in psychotherapy

Summary/Abstract: This study initiates fi rst a challenge, which requires a complex response: is mental illness a myth oran expansive reality? Then it shows a possible alternative to conventional psychotherapy: accountabilitypsychotherapy, proposed by Father Filothei Faros, who abolishes the idea of mental illness,characterizing the person with certain psychological problems just as irresponsible, and focusingon the pacient’s type of work and behavior and not on the act of acknowledging the confl icts of thesubconscious or his insuffi ciencies. The essential role of psychotherapy is not reducing the sufferingcaused by irresponsible behavior but strengthening the resilience of the pacient.Accountability psychotherapy concerns a shift of an existential paradigm relying on the establishmentof a lasting (and proper) connection between the therapist and the pacient, which involves theloving attitude and work of the therapist and assuming the risk of that love - because any encounterwith the other, from a Christian perspective, means, on the one hand, offering love and consentingto the other’s freedom to accept or to reject it, and on the other hand, assuming the suffering thatcomes from being open toward someone else by wearing all his pains.

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