Hadrian-V. Conţiu, Mental illnesses and accountability psychotherapy in Father Filothei Faros’ view or the risk of loving in psychotherapy
This study initiates first a challenge, which requires a complex response: is mental illness a myth or an expansive reality? Then it shows a possible alternative to conventional psychotherapy: accountability psychotherapy, proposed by Father Filothei Faros, who abolishes the idea of mental illness, characterizing the person with certain psychological problems just as irresponsible, and focusing on the pacient’s type of work and behavior and not on the act of acknowledging the conflicts of the subconscious or his insufficiencies. The essential role of psychotherapy is not reducing the suffering caused by irresponsible behavior but strengthening the resilience of the pacient.
Accountability psychotherapy concerns a shift of an existential paradigm relying on the establishment of a lasting (and proper) connection between the therapist and the pacient, which involves the loving attitude and work of the therapist and assuming the risk of that love - because any encounter with the other, from a Christian perspective,  means, on the one hand, offering love and consenting to the other’s freedom to accept or to reject it, and on the other hand, assuming the suffering that comes from being open toward someone else by wearing all his pains.

Keywords: mental illness, psychotherapy, accountability, love, risk.

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