Psychiatry and the spiritual life problems

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleПсихиатрия и проблемы духовной жизни
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Scientific theories and disciplines > Medicine
6. Publication date 2007
7. lemma work Father Gleb Kaleda [Author]. Introduction to the book “Psychiatry and the spiritual life problems” by Professor D.E. Melikhov
8. lemma manifestations Священник Глеб Каледа - ученый и пастырь.
9. Keywords psychiatry and Christianity
10. Lemma body

    1. In the article Father Gleb Kaleda makes his comments to the work of Professor D.E. Melekhov, PhD in medicine, one of the Soviet medicine and Russian social psychiatry founders, practicing psychiatrist and a profound Orthodox Christian. The author underlines the necessity to combine scientific, medical and religious understanding of personality in approaching to mental disorders. He displays the importance for both clergyman and psychiatrist to distinguish among spiritual and mental human diseases.