5th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

ORTHODOX PSYCHOTHERAPISTS

The 5th International Conference of Orthodox Psychotherapists is being convened from September 27 to 30, 2012 in Volos with the support of the Dimitria Metropolis under the general title Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care: Revelations of Existence. This institution is addressed to mental health specialists who are interested in existential and religious issues in the exercise of their work, and aims at the theoretical and practical dialogue between theology and psychotherapy.

Indicative thematic axes:

Existential issues in therapeutic practice.
Correspondences and meetings of the experiences of therapist and treated, shepherd and shepherded.
Freedom in the therapeutic and pastoral relationship.
Mental trauma in healing and pastoral care
The financial crisis in the therapeutic and pastoral relationship.
Sexuality in healing and Pastoral care.
Existential questions associated with self-destructive behavior.
Beside the dying man.
The loneliness of the healer and the shepherd.

certificates of participation will be awarded. Information and registration: www.orthopsy2012.gr