Therapy of Spiritual Illnesses: An introduction to the ascetic tradition of the Orthodox Churchby Dr. Jean Claude Larchet Three paperback volumes in a boxed set 800 pages Dr. Larchet's Magnum Opus a vast synthesis of patristic and ascetic oriental teachings from the 1st to 14th centuries, this study presents a renewed vision of the Christian doctrine of salvation and constitutes a veritable treatise, both theoretical and practical, of spiritual psychology and medicine, as well as a summation of Orthodox spirituality that has no equivalent.