The Philokalia and the inner life: on passions and prayer

Front-cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Names & Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Influences and Foundations -- The Passions -- Remedies for the Passions -- Mental Well-Being -- Psychotherapy -- On Thoughts and Prayer -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Constituent works of the Greek Philokalia -- Appendix 2: Authors of the works included in the Greek Philokalia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Back-cover.;The Philokalia was published in Venice in 1782. It is an anthology of patristic writings from the Eastern Church, spanning the 4th to the 15th Centuries, which has been the subsequent focus of a significant revival in Orthodox spirituality. It presents an understanding of psychopathology and mental life which is significantly different to that usually encountered in western Christianity. It also presents accounts of both mental well-being and the pathologies of the mind or soul that are radically different to contemporary secular accounts and yet also find remarkable points of similarity with.