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Healing Group explores the principle and practice of mental and bodily strengthening and healing. Book reviews, articles and resources are shared here.

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1. Mental Health and Capitalism

2. Psychiatry & Big Pharma: Exposed

3. Debunking the chemical imbalance theory of depression

4. The Will in Psychotherapy, by Alberto Alberti MD. This article illustrates by case studies a school of psychotherapy, Psychosynthesis, which centers on will and will over self.

The Will in Psychotherapy

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5. Orthodox Psychotherapy: The Science of the Fathers, by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos. Audiobook in 3 parts, with nice subtitle. It presents Christianity as a therapeutic science. Its focus is on dark side of inner world. No reference is made on impact of socio-economic environment on health of soul. How to develop develop it mutually with modern humanistic psychology, positive psychology and Confucianism is an important research direction.

6. Orthodox Psychotherapy and Western Psychology, by His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and St Vlassios. This article succinctly explains the science of Orthodox Psychotherapy and its comparison with Western Psychology.

7. Orthodox View of Psychotherapy, by Fr Dr Simeon Miscevic

8. Orthodox Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Depression, by Fr Dr Simeon Miscevic

9. Orthodox Psychotherapy in Relation to Modern Western Psychology, by Fr Dr Simeon Miscevic

10. Importance of spiritual dimension of Orthodox faith in mental health, by Fr Dr Simeon Miscevic

11. Psychoneuroimmunology: An Introduction to Immune-to-Brain Communication and Its Implications for Clinical Psychology, by Julienne E. Bower and Kate R. Kuhlman. A good introduction. Although PNI's present stage of research is on bodily illness caused by negative emotions and mental illnesses, it reveals strong evidences of body-mind connection. Does that connection work equally on bodily healing through positive emotions by boosting immune system? What prayer can lead to stable positive emotions?